What is recorded here

Knock North holds a small gritstone chamber where Wilde uncovered an urn of burned bones in 1867. The cist measures less than a metre across, yet it preserves the heat of a funeral and the patience of the field that swallowed it again.

Covered by cairn (MA120-052----). Uncovered by Wilde in 1867. Gritstone flag rested on a capstone which covered a chamber (Wth 0.9; D 0.7m) with side-walls constructed of small stones. It contained an urn with the 'incinerated remains of human bones' (Wilde 1872, 224-5). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 20. Date of upload: 5 December 2012

Cist in Knock North is a Neolithic burial cist, dating to approximately 4000–2500 BCE. Its significance lies in its construction and the presence of a funerary urn, indicating early ceremonial burial practices in the region.

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