What is recorded here

Embanked enclosure is a fairy fort or ringfort in Knockhouse (upperthird By.), County Waterford, Ireland. The 1840 Ordnance Survey map marked a circular embanked enclosure with an external diameter of roughly 35 to 40 metres, while the 1926 edition showed a bank fragment measuring roughly 25 metres east-west and 15 metres north-south, truncated by field banks at the north and west. The published inventory situated the site in pasture on a gentle south-facing slope and recorded that it was not visible at ground level during that account.

Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35-40m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a fragment of a bank (dims. c. 25m E-W; c. 15m N-S) E-S truncated by field banks at N and W on the 1926 ed. Situated in pasture on a gentle S-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 23rd July, 2010.

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