What is recorded here

Knocknagour is a ruined stone ringfort buried inside a pine plantation on a low Kerry rise, its drystone wall still standing one and a half metres high despite centuries of neglect. The name means knob of the goats, suggesting the place once belonged to herding rather than ceremony, yet the wide western gap and radiating field walls hint at a lived-in boundary where people, animals and weather negotiated daily. Walking through the trees today, the fort feels less like a monument than a forgotten room, its corners softened by resin and shadow, waiting for someone to remember what the stones were holding back.

Internal diam. 19.3m N-S, 23m E-W Knockangour/Cnocán na nGabhar: This poorly preserved caher is located within a forestry plantation on the summit of a low rise. Field walls radiate out from its drystone-faced wall, which survives to a maximum height of 1.5m at SW and averages 1.4m wide. An enlarged gap at W, 3m wide, may mark the location of the original entrance. Pine trees have been planted in the interior of the site. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 615. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

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