What is recorded here

Knockacroghera holds a nine-by-five-foot flag stone inside its ringfort, positioned south of the centre with its longer edge running east to west. Hartnett doubted whether nature or human hands shaped it, yet its clean proportions and deliberate placement suggest a roof for a hidden passage rather than a random outcrop. The stone may have covered a narrow chamber where people stored treasure, prayed in darkness, or simply escaped storm and hunger. Whatever it concealed, the builders trusted the stone to keep the secret safe beneath their feet.

In ringfort (CO071-035----). According to Hartnett (1939, 102) 'inside the fort and south of the centre is a large flag-stone 9 feet by 5 feet, its longer axis running E.W. Although it may be a natural outcrop (of which there are many in the vicinity) it looks more like a Man-made underground passage roofing slab'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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