What is recorded here

Knockane holds a true ringfort where local legend calls it a fairy fort, proving that mystery often wears the face of forgotten human craft. Its earthen bank rises three metres on the outside before dropping into a shallow fosse, while upright slabs still mark the eastern entrance like sentinels waiting for people long gone. Cultivation ridges cut across the interior and field stones cluster near the centre, suggesting ordinary lives once moved through this place before wonder took hold. The fort does not need transformation into fantasy; it already contains loss, labour and time.

In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Circular raised area (26m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.6m; ext. H 3m) NNW->E, with external fosse (max. D 1.6m) NW->E; scarp elsewhere, topped by substantial stone field boundary. Entrance (Wth 1.3m) to E; defined by upright contiguous slabs (L 0.6m-0.9m; Wth 0.1m-0.15m; H c. 0.8m) which form revetment to bank. Row of stones on S side almost free standing due to replacement of bank by stone field fence which curves outwards just before entrance. Fosse to NW partially filled with field clearance stones. Remains of cultivation ridges cross interior on N-S axis; field clearance stones dumped atapproximate centre; adjoining bank in NW quadrant is roughly square area (7m x 8m) raised c. 0.3m above surrounding level. 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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