What is recorded here

Knockmajor rises as the highest hill in the area, carrying a small circular enclosure above an older burial place. Major Purcell owned the land when Tighe described it in 1802, giving the hill its name and anchoring it in local memory. Today a coniferous plantation marks the summit beside the trigonometrical station, while scattered stones and edge-set fragments hint that a robbed cairn may have been mistaken for an enclosure.

On the summit of Knockmajor, the highest hill in the area. According to Tighe (1802, 633), 'On the summit of a hill called Knock-major from a modern proprietor Major Purcell, and above the place of burial [KK011-017001-/KK011-017002-], is a small circular enclosure'. Adjacent to the trigonometrical station there is a small coniferous plantation, the ground within which is littered with stones, irregular stoney banks and stones set on edge suggestive of kerbing from S-SW. Possibly the remains of a robbed-out cairn which may have been interpreted as a small enclosure. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 January 2018

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