Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Knocklough, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklough
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70540, -7.13001
- SMR number
- ME015-130001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the N-facing crest of the summit of a prominent hill known as Slieve Gullion. Two small barrows are visible on Google Earth from 2009 but are most clearly visible on the most recent (16/03/2021). This feature appears to be complete as a grass-covered platform (diam. c. 5m) defined by ditch or fosse (ext. diam. c. 10m). The features are also visible on MapGenie imagery (2005-12; 2013-18), Digital Globe (2011-13) and Apple Maps, and were first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (16/03/2021)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.