Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ceremonial stone setting
Knowth, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knowth
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70069, -6.49186
- SMR number
- ME019-030085-
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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
Four areas with stone settings were established outside the kerb of Tomb 1C, the most elaborate being outside the entrances to the E and W tombs but another is just SE of the mound. Two small related areas are adjacent to Tomb 16, and a fifth setting is associated with Tomb 4. Just 2m outside the entrance at NE to Tomb 4 a circular area paved with quartz (diam. c. 1.6m) is enclosed by 2 settings of contiguous, low stones (ext. diam. c. 2.8-3m) set upright, but all the elements only survived only E-S-W as the rest is destroyed by a later pit. This feature is conserved in situ. (Eogan 1984, 38)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 September 2020
See the attached illustrations:
_1 Plan of the cemetery, from Knowth 6, Fig. 2:1
_2 Plan of Tomb 4, from Knowth 1, Fig. 15
References
Eogan, G. 1984 Excavations at Knowth 1. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
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- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.