What is recorded here
Knockshannagh holds a thirty-seven-metre earthen ring where a central mound still rises like a buried heart. Cows graze the soft edge while the old bank watches the undulating pasture, unchanged since people stopped naming it a fortress. The fairies may have taken the stones, but they left the shape behind.
Approximately circular platform (diam. c. 37m) with a bank on the periphery. Interior rises slightly towards centre. Situated in undulating pasture land.
Date of upload: 8 September 2016
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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