Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Indicated — Knockaunalour

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
View what I want to do
Indicated — Knockaunalour
Photo: Credit not shown in the picture search · Open the original picture · Rights wording not checked; contact us if this picture should be removed · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

In pasture on S-facing slope, dropping away steeply just outside bank. Extensive view to S and SW. Roughly circular area (46m N-S; 54.7m E-W) enclosed by eroded earthen bank (max. H 1.2m), incorporated into field fence to W with recent internal stone facing; fosse to N (D 0.6m), slight traces to W. Recent cattle gaps in bank to NW (Wth 1.6m), SW (Wth 1m). Interior slopes gently to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.