What is recorded here

Knockawaddra holds a circular earthen ringfort on a north-facing ridge above the Bride River valley. People built the bank and adjusted the interior for the slope, creating a defensible home or marker long before modern fields crossed it. The fairies may have taken the name, but human hands shaped the clay.

In pasture, on N-facing slope of E-W ridge, overlooking Bride River valley. Circular raised area (34m E-W; 33.5m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H1.1m; ext. H 2m) E->W; scarp (H 1.5m) with slight internal lip (H 0.2m) W->E; shallow external fosse (D 0.2m) survives in part. Bank topped by field boundary NE->WSW. Interior raised on NW side to compensate for hillslope. 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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