Ireland 2010: Fourknocks passage grave, Co. Meath
A video from my visit to the ancient passage grave Fourknocks in County Meath in Ireland, not too far from Dublin. We also visited Newgrange and Knowth - video from that coming up :-) - but this one is also quite special, even though it's much smaller, since you can actually get inside it and look at the decorated interior of the grave. You just have to get the key from a guy who lives down the road (don't forget the 20 euro deposit :-). This structure was built between 4500 and 5000 years ago. :-o The name is an anglification of the Irish name, Fuarchnoc, which means 'cold hill'.
Fourknocks and Dowth Passage Tombs County Meath. Ireland
Fourknocks Passage Tomb, built about 5,000 years ago, is part of a complex of tombs. Only the main tomb has been excavated and is open to the public.
Fourknocks has a short passage leading into a wide pear-shaped chamber with three smaller offset chambers. Fragments of 65 burials were found in the tomb, both cremated and unburnt remains of adults and children. Also found were decorated pottery and vessels and personal ornaments including pendants and beads.
Just inside the main chamber to the left of the entrance is one of the few representations of a human face from the Neolithic Period in Ireland. The Face Stone is about three feet high.
Sacred Ireland, Fourknocks, Co. Meath, Ireland's Ancient East
Sacred Ireland, Fourknocks Co. Meath.
by Carmel Diviney
Fourknocks Passage Tomb is a passage grave and National Monument located in County Meath, Ireland and is located 2.7 km (1.7 mi) northwest of Naul, near a hilltop overlooking the Delvin River. The placename means either cold hill or bare/exposed hill.
Fourknocks Passage Tomb dates to 3000–2500 BC.
It was unknown to archaeology until 1949, when a woman making a visit to Newgrange mentioned, there are mounds like this on my uncle’s farm. and is not marked on any of the old Ordnance Survey maps. It was first excavated in 1950-52 by PJ Hartnett. He found cists, grave goods including a foot bowl and a carved antler pin, urns containing cremated remains and a posthole. Unlike other passage graves, the tomb at Fourknocks is not believed to have been covered over with stones. A wooden pole may have held up a wooden or animal-skin roof.
During reconstruction after excavation a concrete roof was placed over the chamber for protection.
Fourknocks has a short passage leading into a wide, pear-shaped chamber with three smaller offset chambers. The original roof was probably a wooden structure supported by a central pole.
Two of the lintels have chevron decoration and one of them has lozenge decoration.
Two other mounds in the Fourknocks complex were excavated. One of these likely served as the cremation site for the bones found in the main tomb and was used for later interments.
Fourknocks, Co Meath, Ireland, is a 5000 year old Megalithic Passage Tomb located about 15km south east of Newgrange. It contains magnificent examples of Neolithic rock art including the Cloch An Aghaidh, or face stone which is believed to be the first representation of a human face found in prehistoric art in Ireland.
Many of these types of ancient monuments have been found to resonate at certain frequencies. Archeoacoustic investigations at such sites, reveal an association between areas which produce strong resonances and the location of this type of rock art. These findings demonstrate that the properties of sound were being explored and recorded thousands of years ago.
Certain sound frequencies and their use in healing and meditation, is something that is being rediscovered in our modern age as we remember how to use these frequencies to align our physical, spiritual and mental bodies for optimal health and well being. Playing the bronze and copper gongs was a real honour at Fourknocks. We felt blest by the ancestors and spirits of the place for our offering of Sacred Sound.
The oldest known example of a gong found in ancient Ireland is a Bronze Age gold alloy gong, found during excavations at Eamain Macha, Co Armagh.
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Four Knocks Passage Grave
Four Knocks Passage grave in Meath is older than the Pyramids and the same age as Newgrange.
Welcome to Fourknocks
Author and guide Anthony Murphy gives a quick introduction to Fourknocks megalithic passage-tomb, a 5,000-year-old monument on the hills of southeastern Meath.
Fourknocks Tomb, Ireland 5,000 years old!!!
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Fourknocks - a 5000 year old tomb that doesn't draw the crowds
Fourknocks is a passage tomb built around 5000 years ago that is located about 15km miles southeast of Newgrange between Ardcath in County Meath and the Naul in County Dublin.
The structure is very different from Newgrange as although the mound is a lot smaller the central chamber is bigger and never had a stone roof, it was either open to the sky or more likely had some sort of hide roof.
The concrete roof was constructed in 1952 at the end of the excavation that followed its 'discover' - a visitor to Newgrange mentioned a relative had similar mounds on their farm!. The excavation found cremated fragments of some 65 burials well as pottery, pendants and beads.
The tomb is locked but you can pick a key up from a local who lives a little over 1km away.
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Take a trip inside a prehistoric passage tomb which contains an early representation of a smiley face.
FourKnocks
FourKnocks Meath Ireland
Fourknocks Passage Tomb dates to 3000–2500 BC.
It was unknown to archaeology until 1949, when a woman making a visit to Newgrange mentioned, there are mounds like this on my uncle’s farm. It is not marked on any of the old Ordnance Survey maps. It was first excavated in 1950-52 by PJ Hartnett. He found cists, grave goods including a foot bowl and a carved antler pin, urns containing cremated remains and a posthole. Unlike other passage graves, the tomb at Fourknocks is not believed to have been covered over with stones. A wooden pole may have held up a wooden or animal-skin roof.
During reconstruction after excavation, a concrete roof was placed over the chamber for protection.[
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Sound Healing - Sacred Ireland part 1: Fourknocks, Co. Meath
Part 1 of a three part series of Sound Healing videos from Ireland's ancient and sacred places.
Fourknocks, Co Meath, Ireland, is a 5000 year old Megalithic Passage Tomb located about 15km south east of Newgrange. It contains magnificent examples of Neolithic rock art including the Cloch An Aghaidh, or face stone which is believed to be the first representation of a human face found in prehistoric art in Ireland.
Many of these types of ancient monuments have been found to resonate at certain frequencies. Archeoacoustic investigations at such sites, reveal an association between areas which produce strong resonances and the location of this type of rock art. These findings demonstrate that the properties of sound were being explored and recorded thousands of years ago.
Certain sound frequencies and their use in healing and meditation, is something that is being rediscovered in our modern age as we relearn how to use these frequencies to align our physical, spiritual and mental bodies for optimal health and well being.
Playing the bronze and copper gongs was a real honour at Fourknocks. We felt blest by the ancestors and spirits of the place for our offering of Sacred Sound.
The oldest known example of a gong found in ancient Ireland is a Bronze Age gold alloy gong, found during excavations at Emhain Macha Co Armagh.
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Dowth Hall redevelopment was opposed by Government
Dowth Hall redevelopment was opposed by Government
The Department of Heritage originally opposed plans for the redevelopment of the protected 18th-century house at Dowth Hall in Co Meath, which was built above a 5,500-year-old Neolithic burial mound described this week as “the most significant megalithic find in Ireland in the last 50 years”. The department wrote to Meath County Council in November 2016, shortly after the house’s owners applied for planning permission to significantly extend and renovate the house, to say it had concerns about t...
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Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery, Ireland
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