Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Knock, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knock
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76360, -6.68030
- SMR number
- ME012-044----
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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 an undulating landscape. It was described in 1987 (SMR file) as a subcircular mound (diam. c. 15m; H 1.8-2m). Archaeological testing (00E0528) just to the NW produced no related material (excavations.ie 2000:747), and it is noted that the mound is at the S edge of an area that was extensively quarried but is now grass-covered (Russell 2000). It is therefore quite possible that the mound might result from clearing the topsoil from the quarried area.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 August 2022, 1 August 2023
References
Russell, I. 2000 Report on an Archaeological Assessment of a Proposed Dwelling House and Waste Water Treatment System at Knock, Castletown, Navan, Co. Meath. Licence: 00E0528. Unpublished report, ACS
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.