What is recorded here

Knockainy Hill still carries two joined barrows, one as large as forty-six metres across, though a field fence now cuts through the smaller southern mound. The northern chamber holds a separate nine-metre mound inside its main platform, suggesting its builders wanted more than one kind of memory or burial. O'Kelly found the site nearly gone in 1944, yet the earth preserved enough shape for Condit and Coyne to measure its chambers decades later. Size and loss both belong to the place; the hill kept what the field took.

Conjoined barrows described in 2004 as following; 'This pair of contiguous barrows lies c. 200m to the south-east of Doonainy cairn [LI032-139005-]. The northernmost barrow (barrow 6), 46m in overall diameter, consists of a bank and internal ditch enclosing a 19m-wide inner mound. A 9m-wide circular mound is located in the north-western quadrant of the central platform. This is the largest barrow on Knockainy Hill. The southern barrow (barrow 7) is bisected by a field fence. It measures 39m in diameter and consists of a bank and internal ditch enclosing a 21m-wide circular inner mound' (Condit and Coyne 2004). This barrow was described in 1944 as following; 'On the S.E. slope of the E. shoulder of Knockainy the O.S. map shows what seems to be a large barrow. On the ground practically no trace remains, as the monument has been almost obliterated. Its overall diameter seems to have been about 100' [30m]' (O'Kelly 1944, 21). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 07 August 2019

A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, associated with a broader funerary landscape in Knockainy West. Its proximity to Doonainy cairn suggests a possible ritual or burial complex of regional significance.

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