What is recorded here

Knocknaneirk holds a forty-metre earthen ring on a south-facing Cork slope, its entrance facing the open field while water still runs along the outer ditch. The bank rises nearly two metres, yet ferns, briars and young trees have taken the inside, making the fort feel less like a ruin and more like a living room the people forgot to leave. It may have been a home, a refuge or a boundary marker, but the shape still works: a circle drawn in earth, water kept at its edge, and a gap left for entry.

In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.7m) with external fosse (D 1.7m), decreasing in depth to S. Bank levelled to WSW; possibly pushed into fosse. Entrance (Wth 6m) to S, sloping gently down to outside. Narrow gap in bank to NW. Water flowing in base of fosse to E, possibly from spring. Interior covered in ferns and briars; NE quadrant overgrown with young trees. 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

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