What is recorded here

Knocknareeha holds a subcircular earthen ringfort twenty-two metres wide, its steep eastern scarp still rising a metre above the sloping pasture. Field walls now cut across its western edge and interior, proving the boundary has bent to human necessity rather than vanished. The shape remains distinct enough to mark on maps since 1840, waiting for someone to walk its broken circle and ask what it excluded.

In open pastureland sloping to the SE and S. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A subcircular rath (22m NW-SE; 18m NE-SW) defined by a steep scarp (max. H 1m) in the E and S sectors. The scarp reduced in height towards the N and SSW, where it was no longer visible. A field wall defined it at NW and a second wall cut across the SW section of the interior. Another rath (CL016-118----) is located c. 100m to the WNW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 30 June 2022

A subcircular earthen ringfort in Knocknareeha, likely dating to the early medieval period, is marked by a steep scarp and appears as an 'enclosure' in the 1996 RMP. It is referred to as a 'fairy fort' locally, reflecting traditional Irish folklore associating such sites with supernatural inhabitants.

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