What is recorded here

Knocknaloman holds a levelled circular scar twenty-six metres wide, still lifting four decimetres above the surrounding pasture. That much measure resists the temptation to call the site lost. The fort has shed its wall but kept its shape, marking the field like a breath held underneath grass.

In level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; circular area (26.3m E-W; 26m N-S) raised 0.4m above level of surrounding field survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knocknaloman is a circular, earthen enclosure likely dating to the early medieval period, used as a defensive or domestic site. It is associated with local folklore surrounding fairy activity, common in Irish tradition for such earthworks.

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