What is recorded here

Knocknaraha holds a rare double-ringed fort where an inner earthen bank and outer bank frame a flat fosse, creating a small defensible room rather than a single casual heap. Its eastern entrance still aligns a stone-lined gap with a low causeway, directing entry across the ridge toward the eastern view. The name invites fairy tale, but the built form points to human craft: a place for storage, shelter, display or dispute, shaped until its edges could be read at a glance.

In rough pasture near the E end of a ridge with good views to the E. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). A bivallate rath (int. diam. 18.5m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by an internal round-topped steep-sided earthen bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m), a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.25m; ext. H 0.25m), and an external round-topped earthen bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.1-0.45m) extending from S to NW. An original entrance gap at E (Wth 4.1m) is lined with upright stones and corresponds with a low causeway across the fosse. The interior slopes gently down to SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 10 July 2023

A bivallate earthen ringfort in Knocknaraha, likely dating to the early medieval period, with a known presence on 19th-century maps. It is locally known as a fairy fort, reflecting the common Irish tradition associating such sites with supernatural or otherworldly beings.

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