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
- 53.70123, -6.49074
- SMR number
- ME019-030095-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Outside the entrance to Tomb 1C East amongst the ceremonial stone settings (ME019-030087-) is a standing stone (D) opposite the tomb entrance. This is a limestone with a rectangular cross-section (dims 0.23m x 0.2m; L 1.6m) which had been lying on the spread of exotic stones but is now set upright in its original socket in the outer line of slabs of the principal stone setting. Although Tomb 1C has no solar alignment with the rising sun at the equinox, the shadow of this stone does fall on K11 at that time. (Eogan and Cleary 2017, 238-9)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 September 2020
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
- Ceremonial stone settingunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial stone settingunder 1 mi
- Timber circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.