Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
Fourknocks, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fourknocks
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59658, -6.32647
- SMR number
- ME033-028001-
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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
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
Excavated in 1950-2, the mound, 19m in diam. and delimited by a low dry-walled kerb, contained a curciform passage-tomb opening to NNE. Three recesses open off the large pear-shaped central chamber, 6.5m by 7.5m, now covered by a shell-concrete dome. Twelve structural stones bear megalithic art. Cemetery mound (ME033-028002-) and cists and pits (ME033-028004-) related to megalithic tomb. (Herity 1974, 253-4; Shee 1981, 220-2)
References
Shee Twohig, E. 1981 The Megalithic Art of Western Europe. Oxford, Clarendon Press
Hartnett, P.J. 1957 Excavation of a passage grave at Fourknocks, Co. Meath. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 58C, 197-277.
Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.