Cnoc Rátha

Cnoc Rátha—the hill of the ring-fort—takes its name from a collection of ancient forts that stood on Carthy's Hill between Knockraha East and Knockraha West. The area's earliest known significant figure was Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (circa 1625–1698), one of Ireland's foremost seventeenth-century Irish-language poets, who was born in Barrymore and maintained connections to the Knockraha district. Knock...