Qualla: Knock y Doonee https://qualla.com/knock-y-doonee en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Knock y Doonee https://qualla.com/knock-y-doonee Knock y Doonee: Introduction https://qualla.com/knock-y-doonee/ Three hundred metres apart, two acts of memory survive on this low hill in the parish of Andreas. The first is a tiny stone chapel laid down by early Christians sometime between the fifth and seventh centuries, with the bilingual ogham stone and ringed cross-slab they left behind. The second, on a hilltop barely a half kilometre south-east, is the pagan boat burial of a Viking warrior laid in his ship around 900 to 950 AD, alongside his sword, his horse, and his dog. Knock y Doonee, sometimes written Knock-e-Dhooney, holds both. Few places on the Isle of Man let you stand in one spot and see two such different ways of meeting the dead.

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