What is recorded here

Knocknagorteeny holds a thirty-metre ring where human ingenuity and fairy mischief likely collided. Built before records began, it became a post-1700 tree-ring when someone planted its edge and heart, turning a defensive mound into a living cage. The trees still choke the ditch and scarps, hiding the boundary between human making and fairy claim. What was fortified became concealed, and what was concealed became story.

In grassland 60m S of public road and 40m W of the avenue leading to a house and farm buildings depicted in 1840 OS 6-inch map. On this map the monument is shown as a circular-shaped area or mound (approx. ext. diam. 30m) the perimeter and interior of which has been planted with trees suggesting that this may have been a post-1700 tree-ring. The 1897 edition of the OS 25-inch map indicates a raised circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 30m, ext. diam. 42m N-S.) defined by a scarp with an outer ditch from SE through W to NE. This map also depicts a tree filled interior suggesting a tree ring. Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 shows the monument heavily overgrown with vegetation. Depicted as an antiquity on the 1840 OS 6-inch map, this may have been an earlier ringfort reused as a tree-ring in the post-1700 period. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 10 June 2020

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