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Pit-burial

Fourknocks, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Pit-burial, Fourknocks, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Fourknocks
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.59659, -6.32647
SMR number
ME033-028004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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