What is recorded here

Knowth Tomb 10 is a ruined passage chamber fifteen metres from the great mound, reduced to two kerb stones, a broken upright and a scatter of cremated bones. The mound itself has vanished, leaving only ghost sockets in the stripped earth where its weight once pressed. Whatever hands built it, they were forgotten quickly enough to be buried again, and even that second burial was half erased. What remains is a address without a name, a room with no wall, and a dead person reduced to a smell of heat.

Knowth cemetery, Tomb 10: Located c. 18m NW of the great mound, Tomb 1C, and just NE of Tomb 9. Two kerb stones but no evidence of a mound on the stripped subsoil are all that survived of this tomb. The stump of an orthostat with packing stones and some cremated remains, together with a single socket indicate its site. The mound is partially reconstructed and two stone sockets are marked with concrete posts. (Eogan 1974, 18, Site 7; 1984, 59-63, Site 10; 1986, 75-7) The above 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: 10 July 2007 Amended: 16 September 2020 See the attached plans: _1 Cemetery plan from Knowth 6, Fig. 2:1 _2 Tomb plan from Knowth 1, Fig. 31

Passage tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3300–2500 BCE). It is part of the larger Knowth cemetery, one of the key components of the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site, significant for its early megalithic architecture and ritual practices.

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