Knocklane Promontory Fort
The Knock Lane Promontory Fort is 13 km west of Drumcliff , northwest of Drumcliff Bay, in County Sligo in Ireland .
Promontory forts are section fortifications . They are mostly located on the coast (also called cap fort, cliff fort or coastal fort; German: Kap-, Klippen- or coastal castle). Of the 400 known sites in Ireland, only a dozen have been archaeologically excavated. The results show that the monuments, although they look similar, were built from the late Bronze Age (1000 BC) and were occasionally used until the late Middle Ages (1500 AD).
description
In the north-west of Yellow Beach, west of Knocklane Hill ( Irish Cnoc Laoigheáin ) lies a promontory jutting far into the Atlantic . Except on the east side, where walls and ditches lie, it is surrounded by the sea with the offshore islands of Ardboline and Horse Island. The Promontory Fort consists of three moats and ramparts. Two are in the east, parallel to each other and an entrance interrupts them. The inner ditch with a rampart lies about 80 m away from the sea.
A raised platform inside is the remainder of a lighthouse from 1804. On the south side is the semicircular gorge called "Derk von Knocklane", where the wind and the sea make a howling sound.
The Annals of Ireland report that Tigernán Ua Ruairc (Tiernan O'Rourke), clan leader of the Bréifne , attacked this part of Sligo in AD 1051. He destroyed Dunfeich, which is best equated with Knocklane, which was also called Dún Iartharach (the western fort).
The Henge von Lisnalurg is nearby .
literature
- Matthew Stout : The Irish Ringforts Dublin, 1997 ISBN 1-85182-582-7
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Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 56.5 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 46.5" W.