What is recorded here

Knockannaskeagh Forts are twin earthen rings straddling a field boundary in County Limerick, mapped as distinct circles in 1840 but reduced to a single oval scar by 1897. The land swallowed one fort while the other faded into cropmarks, proving that human boundaries are temporary and soil remembers shape longer than people remember names.

In pasture 200m S of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Tobernea East. Possible ringfort (LI047-075002-) lies to immediate E. Annotated 'Knockannaskeagh forts' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as one of two circular-shaped earthworks enclosures located either side of a field boundary. Partially levelled monument shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 20m NW-SE; 11m NE-SW) defined by a scarp from NW-E-S. Levelled earthwork visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 24m N-S; 24m E-W) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 25 August 2021

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