Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Knockglass, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockglass
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76155, -6.87224
- SMR number
- ME011-029002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located inside the bank of rath (ME011-029001-) at W where the interior of the rath is higher. The beehive chamber (present diam. 2.2m) is almost filled with stones but the passage might be represented on the rath surface 8m to ESE by a depression (dims 5m NE-SW; 1.7m NW-SE; D 0.1m) and 3m to the S of this another depression (L 9m; Wth 2.3m; D 0.3m) extends SSW to the edge of the scarp of the rath.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 9 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.