| Site Type: | Cave | | Site Status: | ASSI | | Council area: | Fermanagh & Omagh District Council | | Grid Reference: | H273300 | | Bing maps: | 54.21867,-7.58148 | | Google maps: | 54.21867,-7.58148 | | Rocks |
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| Rock Age: | Quaternary, Carboniferous (Asbian, Holocene, Visean) | | Rock Name: | Dartry Limestone Formation, Glenade Sandstone Formation, Knockmore Limestone Member, Meenymore Formation | | Rock Type: | Limestone | | Interest |
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| Other interest: | cave |
| Summary of site: |
| Knockninny Hill is some distance from the main Carboniferous karst areas of County Fermanagh so this small cave has attracted interest. It consists of a 10 m passage entered at the base of cliffs on the west side of the hill. It could be a survival of a former, more extensive, system. | | It is of some arch'ological interest and an excavation in 1875 yielded remains of 9 humans, flint tools, a cist (a stone burial cell) containing an urn filled with bones and some early pottery fragments. |
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