What is recorded here

Knock North holds a narrow stone chamber, barely larger than a outstretched body, waiting beneath its cairn. Aldridge found a flat floor and a heavy capstone in 1960, but the bones were already gone. The dead left no name behind, only a hollow shape that the land still remembers.

Near centre of cairn (MA121-089----). Aldridge (1960, unpub. notes), recorded a cist (L 1.4m; D 0.9m) covered by a capstone with a flat stone floor. He refers to bones being removed from the site. 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. 21. Date of upload: 7 January 2015

Cist in Knock North is a small stone burial chamber, likely dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Its presence within a cairn suggests it is part of a funerary monument, indicating early ritual or burial practices in the region.

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