Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Fourknocks, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fourknocks
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59659, -6.32647
- SMR number
- ME033-028004-
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
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
Five cists, one empty and the rest containing crouched burials of children, were inserted into the cairn of passage-tomb (ME033-028001-). Grave goods consisted of one Bowl Food Vessel and a possible pit burial contained another Food Vessel. Cists sealed by mound (ME033-028002-), into which two inverted Cinerary Urns were inserted in pits. (Hartnett 1957, 202, 254-7).
References
Hartnett, P.J. 1957 Excavation of a passage grave at Fourknocks, Co. Meath. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 58C, 197-277.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Passage tomb artunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.