What is recorded here

Knocknashannagh holds a circular earthen fort thirty-eight metres across on a south-facing Cork slope, commanding wide views toward the east and west. Two broad breaks pierce the banks, joined by a rough trackway across the grassy interior, suggesting people once walked through rather than around it. A quarter disappeared about 1928, yet the remaining rings still divide pasture from memory, inviting wonder about who lived there before the land was shortened.

In pasture, on S-facing slope, commanding extensive views to E, S and SW. Circular area (38.5m N-S; 38.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.8m); intervening fosse (D 0.4m) S->E; outer earthen bank (H 1.5m) S->E; external fosse (D 0.2m) to N. Break through both banks to E (Wth 4m) and to NW (Wth 4m), joined by rough trackway across interior. Interior raised and grass covered. According to Broker (1937, 52), 'quarter of it knocked about 1928'. 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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