Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 53.70465, -6.48958
- SMR number
- ME019-073----
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 in a slight E-W dip or fold between a rise to the N and the ridge of Knowth c. 200m to the S, and just W of the burial ground (ME019-028----). This is a large D-shaped and grass-covered area (dims 50m N-S; c. 38m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 5-6m) that partially underlies a NNW-SSE field bank added since 1836 (OSI 6-inch map).
See attached aerial photographs taken from Google Earth 2013 and 2005.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 8 June 2021
References
Stout, G. 2005 Interpretation of an earthwork complex at Knowth, Co. Meath. In C. Corlett and T. Condit (eds.), Above and beyond; essays in commemoration of Leo Swan, 383-92. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Industrial siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.