What is recorded here
Knockanoura holds a stone ringfort where human hands built a defensible home before memory faded. The fairies inherited the fort only after people stopped using it, yet the boundary between the two remains blurry.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Knockanoura FortFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 557 yd
Church in Kilvoydan SouthChurch · 1735 yd
Clooney Ho.House, 18th/19th century · 1.2 mi
Kilcatherine GraveyardWood · 1.2 mi
Clooney Castle (in Ruins)Castle, tower house · 1.4 mi
Derrymore WoodWood · 2.4 mi
Cloghleagh RockNamed rock · 4.5 mi
Mulkere MemorialMemorial · 4.7 mi