Knock drum
Knockdrum ( Irish Cnoc Droma - also called Farrandau-Knockdrum Stone Fort) is a dry -walled stone dun (foundation walls of a Bronze Age or Iron Age complex) of about 28.5 × 28.5 m restored before 1860 . It is located on a hill of the same name not far from Castletownshend , south of the R596 (road) from Castletownshend to Skibbereen in County Cork in Ireland .
The Dun has in the northeast a narrow access with a small guard cell ( English guard-cell ) right behind the modern cattle guard ( English Cattle grid ) high in about three meters high and 1.75 up to 2.0 m wall. To the left of the entrance is a 1.45 m high, 35 cm wide and 16 cm thick stone pillar ( English pillar stone ) with an incised Greek cross . In the center of the fort are the foundations of a square building. At one corner is the access to a "rock-cut" basement that was examined in 1930 and is accessible today . The reconstructed walls and the impressive staircase make the place more modern than it is. The fort and outside there are boulders with a series of bowls ( English cups ).
Nearby is the Gurranes stone row and about eight kilometers away is the Drombeg stone circle .
See also
literature
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the National Monuments of Ireland. Dublin 1970, ISBN 0-7171-0758-2 , p. 58
Web links
- Short text and picture of the access to the basement
- Description Engl. + Pictures
- Description Engl. + Image
- Image of the access to the basement
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '35.5 " N , 9 ° 11' 37.3" W.