What is recorded here

Knockearagh holds a wide earthen ring on a sunny slope, facing Mangerton Mountain through ferns and forgotten fields. Its double banks and broken entrances suggest people once shaped the land before becoming ghosts in the story. The fort still works like a chamber, waiting for someone to remember why it was made.

In pasture, on a S-facing slope with views SW to Mangerton Mountain. A raised circular area (c. 47m E-W; 44m N-S) defined by an inner earthen bank (Wth 7.25m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 2.6m) obscured by overgrowth, by an intervening fosse (Wth 4.8m) and by an outer earthen bank (Wth 3.35m; int. H 2.6m; ext. H 2.6m) also obscured by overgrowth. Recent breaks which occur in the outer bank at SSW (Wth 5.5m) and at NNE (Wth c. 7.5m) lead to the fosse, where the bases of both flanking banks and the base of the fosse have recently been re-cut NNE-SSW. The fern-covered fosse is intact SSW-NNE. The level interior is covered with overgrowth and has a possible Man-made underground passage (KE067-008001-) to the NW of the centre. A curvilinear field boundary skirts the external base of the bank SSW-W and an open drain skirts it NW-N. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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