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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knocknamallavoge

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Knocknamallavoge holds a circular earthen ring, twenty-nine metres across, with a one-and-a-half-metre bank and gaps at the southeast and southwest. It sits on a north-facing slope in pasture, heavily overgrown but still distinct. People may have lived there, herded animals, or simply marked the ridge with a boundary the land still remembers.
In pasture, on N-facing slope of E-W ridge. Heavily overgrown, circular, raised area (29.7m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.4m). Gap in bank to SE and SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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