Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
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
- ME033-029003-
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
Cairn (ME033-029002-) and passage-tomb (23) covered by oval sod mound (dims. 25m NE-SW, 22m NW-SE, H 5m) defined by ditch. Carrowkeel ware found in mound material. Burials (ME033-029003-) within mound. (PRIA 1971, 44-47)
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
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 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.