Knocknarea

Knocknarea is a big hill west of Sligo town in County Sligo, Ireland. The 327-metre excessive limestone hill is visually putting, as it is monolithic in look and stands in a outstanding role at the Cuil Irra peninsula among the bays of Sligo and Ballysadare. At the summit is a massive mound of free stones. Although it has now not been excavated, it's miles believed to conceal a Neolithic passage tomb. Knocknarea is an anglicization of an Irish call. "Knock" means hill, but the etymology of the rest of the call is disputed.

The Placenames Database of Ireland gives the Irish name as Cnoc na Riabh. However, P.W. Joyce desired the translation Cnoc na Riaghadh. Cnoc na Riogha has also been recommended, as has Cnoc na Re. On the summit of Knocknarea is a large cairn about 55 metres huge and 10 metres excessive, making it the largest such cairn in Ireland out of doors the Bru na Boinne complicated in Meath. Although it stays unexcavated, and is one in all the most important of such monuments still unexplored, it has most of the functions of a traditional passage tomb.