Knockbrack Fort, Hachured

In pasture 20m NW of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Tooraleagan and 50m W of the Monaheancree Stream that marks the county boundary with Cork. Annotated ‘Knockbrack fort’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. c. 39m N-S; 55m E-W) enclosed by a bank from SW-N reduced to a scarp elsewhere with outer fosse from N-E and at S, gap at NNW. Visible as an oval-shaped cropmark delimited by trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 9 November 2021