Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
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
- 53.70114, -6.49206
- SMR number
- ME019-030094-
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
Outside the entrance to Tomb 1C West amongst the ceremonial stone settings (ME019-030086-) is a standing stone (dims 0.37m x 0.35m; total H 2.56m) placed opposite the entrance stone (K 74) of the tomb. It has highly polished surfaces, some with faint motifs surviving on its E face. It may have fallen shortly after its erection as there was no spread of quartz stones beneath it. The stone has been re-erected in its socket and, although the passage of Tomb 1C West is not aligned on the setting sun at the equinox, the shadow of the standing stone at sunset on those occasions does cross the art of the entrance kerbstone like the pointer of a gnomon. (Eogan and Cleary 2017, 219-23)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 September 2020
See the attached image:
_1 from SW
References
Eogan, G. and Cleary, K. 2017 Excavations at Knowth 6: The Passage Tomb Archaeology of the Great Mound at Knowth. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Nearby in the register
- Ceremonial stone settingunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.