Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Fourknocks, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fourknocks
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59691, -6.32547
- SMR number
- ME033-029001-
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
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
Megalithic Structure Situated some 50m to E of passage-tomb (ME033-028001-) this site, on excavation in 1950-2, was shown to be a composite monument. It comprised an ovoid mound (ME033-029003-) with cists and pit burials (ME033-029004- and ME033-029005-) which covered, at SW, a small cairn (ME033-029002-) and, at NE, a megalithic passage with a transverse fosse at its SE end; both passage and transverse fosse contained burials. The primary finds indicate that the monument was constructed by passage-tomb peoples. (PRIA 1971, 35-83)
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 18/1976).
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.