Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Knock North, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knock North
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54892, -9.25461
- SMR number
- MA121-085002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Covered by cairn (MA120-052----). Uncovered by Wilde in 1867. Gritstone flag rested on a capstone which covered a chamber (Wth 0.9; D 0.7m) with side-walls constructed of small stones. It contained an urn with the 'incinerated remains of human bones' (Wilde 1872, 224-5).
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 20.
Date of upload: 5 December 2012
References
Wilde, W. 1872 Lough Corrib: its shores and islands with notices of Lough Mask. 2nd ed. Dublin. McGlashan and Gill.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.