What is recorded here

Knocknageeha South held a double-ramparted ringfort on D. MacSweeney's land until local residents levelled the outer bank around 1967. The inner rampart still stands about five feet high, marking a circular home or refuge that has watched the gentle southeast-facing slope since before Bowman recorded it in 1934. Grass grows differently across the buried boundary, preserving the shape of a place people once defended, lived in, or forgot.

In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. According to local information, levelled c. 1967. Levelled bank (Wth c. 3m) visible as differential growth pattern enclosing circular area (40m E-W; 38m N-S). Probably double-ramparted ringfort (diam. c. 34yd) recorded by Bowman (1934, 277) on D. MacSweeney's land; 'outer rampart levelled; inner rampart c. 5 ft. high'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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