Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Knockercreeveen

Internal diameter 34m N-S, 34.4m E-W Lisnacreev/Lios na gGraobh (ringfort of the bushes). Situated SE of KE009-060----, this site lies immediately NE of Bushmount House. This univallate cahir is slightly cut to the NW by a fieldbank. It consists of a circular area enclosed by a 4m wide stone bank which rises from 1.6m-3m above the interior and 4m above the external fosse. The external fosse is well defined and encloses the whole site, except to the NW where it has been cut by the fieldbank; elsewhere it is 2.5m wide and 1.5m deep. The interior is at a slightly higher level than the surrounding land. In the N to NE sector of the interior are what could be two roughly rectangular house-sites (KE009-062001- & KE009-062002-) constructed of stone. The first measures 7.8m x 6.4m with 1m-thick walls; the second measures 6.8m x 6m and the wall is also 1m thick. In the former possible house-site is a depression .6m deep. According to Miss Hickson (1883-84), a large flat stone was discovered at some distance below the surface of the ground and when removed it revealed a deep well whose wall was stone lined. In the 1890s, several fragments of inscribed stones were found in this fort by R. J. Rice (1896) and were later identified as 'portions of an ogham monument' (Rev. Dr Graves 1896). Also see (49). When deepening a portion of the fosse at the south side of "Lisnacreavh", I found about twenty- eight or thirty horse-loads of stones at a depth of about three feet or three and a half feet below the level of the remainder of the fosse ... i.e. rough- dressed, hollowed, and burned or sooty looking. Underneath this huge pile, I came upon the foundation of two "dry" walls 5 ft x 13 ft, about 5 yards apart, and both running parallel in a southerly direction.' (P.J. Rice, 1896). See also 808 (KE009-062----). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 808. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013