Knocknarea South

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknarea South, from 402 m² to 725,512 m² (72.55 ha, 179.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Knocknarea South in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Knocknarea South in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knocknarea Mountain And Glen 001670

Recorded monuments

• SL014-076001 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  Located on the summit of Knocknarae Mountain, which is flanked to N by Sligo Bay and to SW by Ballysadare Bay. It is 85m N of the massive cairn/passage tomb (SL014-076003-), known as Maeve’s Cairn. Indicated as ‘Carn’ on the OS 6-inch map. A circular cairn (diam. 10-12m; H 1m) encloses a cruciform tomb built of orthostats or upright slabs. The tomb consists of a passage, with entrance at SE, which leads to a tripartite chamber. The chamber and the passage are greatly ruined and roofless; only nine orthostats of limestone and gneiss remain in situ. The limestone cairn is low, reaching only to the top of the orthostats; it has been suggested that it may never have covered the top of the chamber (Bergh 1995, 237). The cairn is encircled at a distance of c. 5m by a concentric bank (diam. 30m; Wth 4.5m; H 0.6m) of limestone. The tomb appears to have been one of several monuments on Knocknarae which were disturbed/’investigated’ in the early 1800’s by Richard Chamber Walker, a local landowner and antiquarian; Wood-Martin (1895, 660 ) recorded that burnt human and animal bones and small round unperforated beads [possibly stone] were found. (Bergh 1995, 87-8; 236-7, site 1). This is a National Monument (No. 153) in state ownership. Attached images: SL014-076001-_01.JPG Viewed from W SL014-076001-_02.JPG Ruined chamber, viewed from S SL014-076001-_03.JPG Ruined chamber, viewed from E Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 April 2020

• SL014-076002 Enclosure
  Description

  On the summit of Knocknarae Mountain, located 50m to N of a large passage tomb, known as Maeve’s Cairn (MA014-076003-), and 30m to S of another passage tomb (MA014-076001-). This possible hut site or small enclosure is indicated on the OS 6-inch map as a circle of boulders, annotated ‘Stone Circle’. It consists of a circular area (diam. 9m) defined by a stone bank (Wth 3-4; H 0.3-0.6m), now largely concealed by heather. The overall external diameter is 17m. There is a gap in the bank at NW. Immediately to N of the stone bank, a flat square area (8m N−S; 8m E−W) is defined on the W and N sides by a ditch (Wth c. 2m; D 0.5m); it is open on the E side. (Bergh 1995, 237-38, site 2). This is a National Monument (No. 153) in state ownership. Attached images: SL014-076002-_01.JPG Viewed from NW SL014-076002-_02.JPG Viewed from N Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 April 2020

• SL014-076003 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  This massive circular, limestone cairn (diam. c. 60m; H c. 10m), named ‘Miosgan Meva’ (Maeve’s Cairn) on the OS 6-inch maps, crowns the summit of Knocknarae Mountain. Its flat-topped silhouette is a miniature version of the squat bulk of the mountain itself, which rises abruptly from the fertile coastal grasslands of the Cúil Irra peninsula, flanked by Ballysadare Bay to S and Sligo Bay to N. It is one of the most iconic archaeological monuments and landmarks in NW Ireland, its importance, past and present, manifest in the enduring folk tradition which identifies it as the burial site of the legendary Queen Maeve of Connacht. The pale-grey cairn, rising above the dark heather-covered plateau and light-reflecting limestone escarpments of the mountain, is visible and instantly recognisable from many widespread points in the surrounding landscape. The location of the cairn itself affords panoramic views, encompassing extensive areas of county Sligo, and stretching far into counties Mayo and Donegal. Important distant landmarks which tie the cairn into an ancient network of routeways and a wider ritual and mythological landscape, include Benbulben, the cairn-topped peaks of the Ballygawley Mountains (SL020-128----; SL020-129----; SL021-007----) and the Ox Mountains (SL019-174001; SL019-174002-; SL019-177----), Cairns Hill (SL014-231001-; SL014-232----), Carrowkeel Megalithic cemetery (MA040-086---- to MA040-105----) and Kesh Corann (SL040-008----). In its more immediate vicinity, the cairn is the dominant visual focus of a remarkably dense concentration of prehistoric ritual and settlement monuments. It is flanked on the summit by a roughly N-S linear cluster of smaller satellite tombs, cairns and mounds (SL014-076001- to SL014-076009-; SL014-076019-); the descending terraces of the mountain host huts sites (SL014-076047- to SL014-076050-), and field walls (SL014-076011-), and two caves (SL014-288----; SL014-290----) on the W flank of the mountain have produced evidence of Neolithic burials. At the foot of the mountain, the numerous passage tombs of Carrowmore megalithic cemetery (SL014-209001- , etc.), and associated monuments, spread eastwards across the undulating lowlands of Cúil Irra. Flat-topped, with broadly sloping sides, the cairn presents a deceptively simple outline. Closer examination reveals more complexity (Berg 1995, 238-239). Although the body of the cairn is primarily limestone, a number of large gneiss boulders protrude from the perimeter at N−NE, and may be part of a kerb. Five small, low subcircular or D-shaped cairn-like concentrations of stone (diam. 8-11m; H 0.5-1m) abut the base of the cairn at E, S and W. Two large stones, a prostrate limestone slab 2m to N of the cairn, and a gneiss erratic 5.5m to S of the cairn, appear to represent deliberately placed markers on a N−S alignment. A low, inconspicuous earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; H 0.3m) encircles the cairn at a distance of 1-6m; it respects the five small cairns and the marker stones, kinking outwards to include them within its circuit (Berg 1995, 238-239). The cairn is intact; it escaped the depredations of 18th- and 19th-century treasure hunters, and it has not been excavated. Its internal structures, therefore, remain a mystery. It is likely to be about 5000 year old, the same age as its eastern counterparts, the excavated Neolithic passage tombs at Newgrange (ME019-045----) and Knowth (ME019-030001-). Maeve’s Cairn is a National Monument (No. 153) in state ownership. SL014-076003-_01.pdf See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Attached images: SL014-076003-_01.JPG Cairn in silhouette on top of Knocknarea SL014-076003-_02.JPG Cairn viewed from W SL014-076003-_03.JPG Cairn viewed from S, with gneiss erratic (possible S marker stone) in front SL014-076003-_04.JPG Cairn viewed from N, with prostrate limestone slab (possible N marker stone) on ground in front SL014-076003-_05.JPG Cairn viewed from N Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 April 2020

• SL014-076004 Mound
  Description

  On the summit of Knocknarae Mountain, located 15m SSE of a large passage tomb known as Maeve’s Cairn (MA014-076003-), and 7m NE of a possible passage tomb (MA014-076005-). An oval mound (4.5 E−W; 3.7m N−S; H 0.5m), apparently earthen in composition. (Bergh 1995, 240, site 4). This is a National Monument (No. 153) in state ownership. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 April 2020

• SL014-076005 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  On the summit of Knocknarae Mountain, located 35m S of a large passage tomb, known as Maeve’s Cairn (MA014-076003-), and 7m to SW of a mound (MA014-076004-). ‘Stone circles (site of)’ is marked at roughly this location on the OS 6-inch map. There are scant remains of this possible passage tomb. An arc of eleven low gneiss stones (H 0.1-0.3m) appears to define the S perimeter of a stone circle (diam. c. 12m) (Bergh 1995, 240), or possibly a kerb (Ó Nuallain 1989), although no trace of a cairn is evident. To N of the arc, a single set boulder may be the in situ back stone of a chamber that opened to the SE. Three displaced boulders lie to E of it. It is likely that this is one of the monuments on Knocknarae, which were disturbed in the early 1800’s by Richard Chamber Walker, a local landowner and antiquarian. (Bergh 1995, 240, site 5). This is a national monument (No. 153) in state care. SL014-056005-_01.pdf See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Attached image: SL014-076005-_01.JPG Viewed from S Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 April 2020

• SL014-076006 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  Located on a low N-S elevation, on the summit of Knocknarae Mountain, 52m SW of a large passage tomb, known as Maeve’s Cairn (MA014-076003-), and 31m to SW of a possible passage tomb (MA014-076005-). An irregular cluster of eight boulders (av. Size c. 1.1m x 0.7m) appear to represent the very ruined remnants of a chamber, now partly concealed by heather. On the W side of the cluster, there are two recumbent split boulders (H 0.5m), aligned NNW−SSE, which may represent the SW side of the chamber. No race of a cairn or enclosing stone circle is evident. This is likely to be one of the monuments on Knocknarae, which was disturbed in the early 1800’s by Richard Chamber Walker, a local landowner and antiquarian. (Bergh 1995, 240, site 6). This is a National Monument (No. 153) in state ownership. Attached image: SL014-076006-_01 Viewed from S Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 April 2020

• SL014-076007 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  On the summit of Knocknarae Mountain, located 60m S of a large passage tomb, known as Maeve’s Cairn (MA014-076003-), and 18m to S of a possible passage tomb (MA014-076005-). There are two cairns (MA014-076008-; MA014-076008-) located 8m to SSW and 30m to SE respectively. There are scant remains of this possible passage tomb. It was described by Wood-Martin (1888, 111) as ‘…a ruined circle, of which eight stones only, and four of the cist, now remain…’. It is evident now as a loose, irregular cluster of twelve gneiss boulders, with only one boulder set upright (H 0.7m). It may have been disturbed in the early 1800’s by Richard Chamber Walker, a local landowner and antiquarian. (Bergh 1995, 241). This is a National Monument (No. 153) in state ownership. Attached image: SL014-076007-_01 Viewed from S Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 April 2020

• SL014-076008 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  On the summit of Knocknarae Mountain, located 75m S of a large passage tomb, known as Maeve’s Cairn (MA014-076003-). There is a possible passage tomb (MA014-076007-) 8m to NNE, and a cairn (MA014-076009-) 26m to SE. This is evident as a low, oval grass-covered rise (4.5m N−S; 4m E−W; 0.25m), which appears to be composed primarily of fragmentary limestone. It is defined on its perimeter by a barely discernible fosse. A block of white quartzite (0.35m x 0.15m), which does not occur naturally on Knocknarae, is located on the perimeter at E. (Bergh 1995, 241, site 8). This is a National Monument (No. 153) in state ownership. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 April 2020

• SL014-076009 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  On the summit of Knocknarae Mountain, located 26m SE of a cairn (MA014-076008-), and 90m SSE of a large passage tomb, known as Maeve’s Cairn (MA014-076003-). It is located towards the S edge of the summit plateau, with a 2m drop in ground level immediately to E. The original form of this cairn is uncertain. It is evident now as a low, inconspicuous sod-covered concentration (diam. c. 8m; H 0.3m) of angular limestone, with a central depression at N, which gives it a roughly U-shaped plan. (Bergh 1995, 241, site 9). This is a National Monument (No. 153) in state ownership. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 April 2020

• SL014-076013 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076014 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076019 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  On a broad terrace below and to SE of the summit of Knocknarae Mountain, 325m SSE of the large passage tomb, known as Maeve’s Cairn (MA014-076003-). It is located 15m from the edge of the terrace, where there is a steep fall of ground to SE. This passage tomb consists of a circular cairn (diam. 13.5m) which encloses a central cruciform chamber and passage (L 5.5m), opening to SE. The chamber and passage, constructed of upright stones or orthostats (H 0.3-0.7m), are now roofless, and the passage is greatly ruined. The cairn is low with a flat profile, and does not rise above the top of the orthostats. It is defined on its perimeter by a kerb of set stones (av. L 0.5-0.7m; H 0.4m). Interestingly, all the visible kerb stones and orthostats are of gneiss, bar one limestone orthostat in the back recess of the chamber. The tomb is largely concealed by heather. (Bergh 1995, 241-242, site 10). SL014-076019-_01.pdf linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 April 2020

• SL014-076020 Enclosure
  Description

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• SL014-076021 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076022 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076023 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076024 Earthwork
  Description

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• SL014-076028 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

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• SL014-076029 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

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• SL014-076030 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

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• SL014-076031 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076032 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076033 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076034 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076035 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076036 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076037 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076038 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076039 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076040 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076041 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076042 Hut site
  Description

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• SL014-076043 House - indeterminate date
  Description

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• SL014-076048 Hut site
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• SL014-076049 Hut site
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• SL014-076050 Hut site
  Description

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Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknarea South.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Knocknarea South, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocknarea South.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Knocknarea South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Knocknarea South · Cnoc na Riabh Theas

Area

1,022,243 m² (102.22 ha, 252.6 acres)

Civil parish

Killaspugbrone, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Knockaree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,077 people lived in 1,522 households in the Knockaree electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Culleenamore, Culleenduff, Grange North, Grange West, Knocknarea North, Rathcarrick

Placenames

Knocknarea South on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.