What is recorded here

Knockroe holds a circular earthwork twenty-five metres across, marked by a shallow scarp and narrow fosse beside a ringfort one hundred and fifty metres away. Farmers cut a field boundary through its southwest edge after 1700, yet the circle remained visible in cropmarks until recent field changes erased it from satellite views. The fort may have housed people, excluded cattle or simply marked a boundary between neighbouring families. Whatever it was, the land has already taken it back.

In reclaimed pasture 1800m W of the summit of Derk Hill (OD 781 ft.). Ringfort (LI033-018----) 150m to NE. Monument depicted on OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped platform (diam. 24m) defined by fosse, intersected at SW by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. Depicted as circular-shaped earthwork on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a circular-shaped area (diam. 25m) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m) and fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 0.3m) from NNW-NNE. Outline of monument visible as a cropmark in NW corner of field on OSi orthophotos 2005-2012. On Google Earth orthoimage dated 27/03/2017 visible as a cropmark and field amalgamation has seen the removal of field boundary to N. The monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 22 March 2021

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