knockmany passage tomb

The surviving burial chamber, roughly pentagonal in shape, would have been approached originally through a passage, of which little remains. Four of the upright stones of the chamber bear decorative motifs, including concentric circles, lozenges, zigzags and triangles, which resemble those found in the passage-tombs on the Loughcrew Hills in Co. Meath. Like them Knockmany probably dates from around 3000-2500 B.C. The chamber is now protected and locked within the (reconstructed) earthen mound, 75 feet in diameter, which surrounded it.