
What is recorded here
Knocks holds a five-metre circular hut where inner and outer rows of stone slabs still trap smaller stones against the earth. The wall rises sixty centimetres on a south-east facing slope, partly buried under field-clearance rubble that later people threw across it. A burial ground waits fifty-five metres to the north-north-west, suggesting the living and dead shared the same familiar land. The hut is small enough to enter with imagination, yet old enough to have watched several generations clear the same stones and forget the shape they broke.
In pasture, on a SE-facing slope in an area of rolling farmland. The remains of a circular hut site (diam. 5m) defined by a traces of wall (T 1m; H 0.6m) which consists of an inner and outer row of contiguous stone slabs (T 1m; H 0.6m) with an infill of smaller stones. Field-clearance rubble is piled intermittently on the wall and along the S arc. A burial ground (CO122-101001-) is c. 55m to the NNW.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
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