Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Knockglass, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockglass
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76004, -6.86997
- SMR number
- ME011-032----
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
Situated in a hollow at the base of a S-facing slope and with a small pond c. 50m to the SW. This is a grass-covered oval mound (dims 20m NE-SW; 11.5m NW-SE; max. H 0.4m), with an indentation (dims 3m x 3m) for the trough on the NW side. Rath (ME011-030----) is c. 75m to the NNW and rath (ME011-031----) is c. 60m to the ENE.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.