Knocknashee Hillfort

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Knocknashee Hillfort

Knocknashee Hillfort ( Irish Cnoc na Sí - German  "Hill of the fairies" ) is located in the townland of Knocknashee, southwest of Sligo and seven kilometers north of Tobercurry in the Ox Mountains in County Sligo in Ireland .

Barry Raftery (1944–2010) examined 40 single and multiple walled systems on the island (around 80 are known) and divided these hill forts into three classes:

  • Class 1: Simply walled systems made of earth or stone with or without a ditch.
  • Class 2: Systems with extensive, multiple walls on hills or cliffs.
  • Class 3: Inland Promontory Forts

Although it was of interest because of the large stone mounds of the two Tombs passage and the remains of about 30 beehive huts and about a dozen round cavities in the rock, it was not until 1988 that it was recognized by aerial photographs that Knocknashee was a 20 hectare 700 m long and 320 m wide hill fort which is Class 2, which is enclosed by two earth walls and one limestone wall. About 80 Hillforts are known in Ireland, presumably from the Bronze Age . Their size varies between 12 and 129 hectares ( Brusselstown Hillfort in County Wicklow ).

The river Moy has its source at the foot of the 276 m high Knocknashee.

literature

  • T. Condit: Ireland's Archeology from the Air. Country House Dublin 1977 ISBN 0-946172-58-7 .
  • D. Limbert: Irish Ringforts: A Review of Their Origins. The Archaeological Journal: The Royal Archaeological Institute 1996, Vol. 153: pp. 243-289.

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Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 5 ″  W.