What is recorded here

Knockanes Hill holds a wide flat cairn where three townlands and two baronies still meet beneath drystone walls. Someone dug a shallow crater through its west centre, perhaps hunting a buried thing or marking a line no longer visible. The stones remain broad enough to walk across and tall enough to resist forgetting, even when human intent has faded from the ground.

Near the S edge of the semi-karst summit plateau of Knockanes Hill. This quite large flat-topped cairn (12.3m N-S; 11.8m E-W; H 0.5-0.9m) has been dug out in its W centre, creating a subcircular crater (diam. c. 2m; D 0.6m) with adjacent upcast. There is a pyramidal stone heap (diam. 2.2m; H 1-1.3m) at the S edge of the cairn’s summit. The E edge of the cairn may have been cleared back. The cairn is the meeting-point of three townlands and the baronies of Burren and Inchiquin. Their boundaries are defined by drystone walls which intersect at the top of the cairn. The following image has been uploaded: CL010-220----_01.jpg View of cairn from S Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 20 June 2023

A Neolithic cairn, likely dating to the Early to Middle Bronze Age, based on regional typology. Its size and location suggest it may have been a communal burial or ceremonial site, though specific significance remains undetermined due to limited recorded context.

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