Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Knockdinnin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockdinnin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.83436, -6.44065
- SMR number
- LH018-015----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Situated on summit of narrow E-W ridge. Remains of a flat-topped circular mound (overall diam. 14m; diam. at top 8.2m E-W, 4.5m N-S; H 2m). N side of mound has been partially removed, probably during the creation of a field bank along this side to form a tree plantation. Half-way up the mound is a berm from SW-S-E-NE, but this feature may be due to landscaping. Recorded as a ringfort by Barrett (CLAJ 1982, 82).
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.