What is recorded here

Knockroe appeared on the 1842 map as a small cluster of seven mud houses, but only three remain today. One has collapsed into ruin, one wears slate, and one bears corrugated iron. The missing houses vanished without trace, perhaps swallowed by hunger, marriage or simple forgetting. What is left stands bare on the Cork landscape, its brick chimneys still pointing upward like abandoned sentences.

Named 'Knockroe' on 1842 OS 6-inch map, now abandoned. Only three out of approx. seven houses remain, one in ruins. All are 1-storey, mud built, gable-ended, with single end chimney of brick. Top of wall, gable with chimney and ope surrounds are stone built. One has slate roof, other of corrugated iron. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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