Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Dowth, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dowth
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Moat Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.70492, -6.44076
- SMR number
- ME020-013----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007
In the landscaped garden of Dowth House this mound, c. 20m in diam., contains a corbel-roofed, multi-celled chamber; probably a passage-tomb. A spiral has been noted on one of the stones. (O'Kelly 1978, 54-5)
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Passage tomb artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.