Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

House - Neolithic

Knowth, County Meath, Ireland

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Townland: Knowth
County: Meath
Country: Ireland
First-edition OS map: Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map: Not indicated
Coordinates: 53.70124, -6.49213
SMR number: ME019-030026-

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The National Monuments Service's description

This Neolithic House Site, No. 4, is part of Eogan's Phase 3 Decorated Pottery complex: Domestic activity – Zone F, which is located between Tombs 15, 16, and 17. This phase, now called Middle Neolithic, is associated with the building of the tombs and dated to c. 3500-2900 cal. BC (Eogan and Cleary 2017, 41). House Site No. 4 consisted of an arc (diam. c. 5.5m) of 7 stake-holes in an area with 109 stake-holes but no hearth or habitation layer was identified. Including Neolithic House 5, the finds were few but there included sherds from at least 2 decorated vessels and 6 Carrowkeel ware vessels. (Eogan and Roche 1997, 58-60)

True location: ITM (699650, 773483)

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 25 November 2013
Amended: 17 September 2020

See the attached plans:
_1 Cemetery plan from Knowth 6, Fig. 2:1
_2 House plan from Knowth 2, Fig. 10

References

Eogan, G. and Roche, H. 1997 Excavations at Knowth 2. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy Monographs in Archaeology.

Eogan, G. and Cleary, K. 2017 Excavations at Knowth 6: The Passage Tomb Archaeology of the Great Mound at Knowth. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin

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