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This oval feature within Knockinhaglish Wood consists of an earthen bank surrounded by a ditch. It is about 65m long by about 55m wide, with its long axis oriented SW—NE. The site is elevated above the surrounding woodland, and it would present a striking appearance if it was out in the open. See Link at Canmore for a detailed archaeological description, with diagrams of the layout. As shown on the 1:25000 OS map, a drainage channel passes the southern extremity of the earthwork; there, the channel passes along a part of the earthwork's surrounding ditch.

As a scheduled monument, this antiquity is given legal protection under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979: Link

On different maps, the site is variously labelled a "fort", an "earthwork", or a "cashel". The name Knockinhaglish is presumably for "cnoc na h-eaglaise", "hill of the church", and indicates that, when the name was coined, there was a religious building here, or at least a tradition of one; failing that, the name could allude to the actual or supposed presence of a burial ground (not necessarily from the Christian era). The OS Name Book entry (c.1860) for the site discusses what was, according to several nineteenth-century authorities, found here: Link