What is recorded here

Knocknageeha West holds a fifty-metre earthen ring where a hidden passage cuts through the north-west soil. The bank rises beside a waterlogged ditch while the interior slopes downward toward a swampy seam. People may have built the fort to watch the rolling countryside or to keep something dangerous at bay. The earth still marks the shape even though human hands no longer walk the grass above it.

In pasture, overlooking rolling countryside to S and W. Roughly circular area (50m E-W; 45m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 1m) to NE, with external waterlogged fosse (D 0.6m); scarp (H 0.95m) to SE, S and W. Rubble removed from quarry, to N of site, dumped on area of bank to N. Swamp outside scarp to SE. Interior slopes down to SE. Man-made underground passage (CO030-07502-) in NW quadrant of interior. 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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