What is recorded here
Knocknalappa holds a crannog, an artificial island built upon water. Whether it served as a home, a hiding place or a marker for a forgotten lineage, the lake still keeps its shape. The clay may have been carried from elsewhere and stacked against the current, a small act of defiance against the drowning dark. To stand beside it is to remember that people shaped the world before the world was measured.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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islandWood · 2.5 mi
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