Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Fourknocks, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fourknocks
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59700, -6.32169
- SMR number
- ME033-031001-
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
Pit with cremation beneath barrow (ME033-031----). A Cordoned Urn with the cremation of a child and a Vase Food Vessel found in body of mound. (PRIA 1971, 75-81)
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.