Mound, Knock of Howth — Report the wrong picture

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Knock of Howth stood seventy centimetres tall with an eighteen-metre diameter, layering a stone core beneath sandy soil until men destroyed it in the 1930s. They uncovered a human skull and large white boulder inside its upper strata, proving the mound had guarded a dead body rather than marking a border or storing grain. A curving stone wall still outlines its northern edge near Boroughfield road, preserving the shape of what vanished.

Destroyed in the 1930's. A curving stone wall N of Boroughfield road outlines the N portion of the site. Formerly a round-topped mound (H.1.70m, diam. c. 18m). It was built up of two layers, a stone core and an upper layer of sandy soil. A human skull and large white boulder were found in the upper strata of the mound (Gogan, Irish Independent, 14 August 1933). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 26 January 2015

A Neolithic passage tomb; partially excavated in the 1930s, it is significant as part of the broader Howth tomb complex, associated with early farming communities in the Dublin region.

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