What is recorded here

Knockastuckane held a thirty-metre earthen ring on Mr Leader's land until ploughs and progress erased most of its line. A faint southern scarp still marks the forgotten boundary, resisting the pasture's smooth greed. The fort joined four others in the same area, creating a small cluster of human ambition that now survives only through a shallow ridge and the memory of soil.

In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; slight scarp marks line of enclosure on S side. One of five levelled and partially levelled single-ramparted forts (CO030-45---, CO030-48---, CO030-49---, CO030-050---) recorded by Bowman (1934, 280) on Mr Leader's land. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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