What is recorded here

Áine Cliar's Cave vanished because a quarry took the limestone hill where it hid. It was small enough to fit inside a single breath, yet large enough to leave a name behind on the forgotten edge of a map. The stone chamber is gone, but the cave still lives in the shape of the hole cut into Knockainy Hill.

The source of this record is the minor name 'Áine Cliar's Cave (site of)' in antiquarian typeface which is located at the northern edge of a quarry on the 1927 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Natural cave described by O'Kelly (1944, 20) as following; 'This seems to have been a small cave in the limestone rock on the south side of Knockainy Hill. It has now disappeared owing to the continued extension of a nearby quarry. It is called Aine Cliar's Cave on the map'. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 28 April 2014 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 304/28 date taken 13/09/2002.

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