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Situated on the NE-SW ridge of Dowth. The parish church of Dowth (ME020-019----) is in a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60-65m E-W; c. 35-40m N-S) defined by masonry walls. The graveyard walls have been built since 1682-5 when Dopping describes the graveyard as unenclosed (Ellison 1973, 5). Archaeological monitoring (E002470) during 2006 of a road surface to the graveyard from the E produced evidence of two post-medieval walls (Russell 2007). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 June, 2014 Amended: 17 February 2021

Neolithic passage tomb; dates to the late Neolithic period, c. 2500–2000 BCE. Dowth is one of the largest and most significant passage tombs in the Brú na Bóinne complex, comparable to Newgrange and Knowth.