Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

House — Neolithic in Knowth

House — Neolithic
View what I want to do
No photo yet

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

This Neolithic House Site, No. 5, is part of Eogan's Phase 3 Decorated Pottery complex: Domestic activity - Zone F, which is located between Tombs 15, 16, and 17. This phase, now called Middle Neolithic, is associated with the building of the tombs and dated to c. 3500-2900 cal. BC (Eogan and Cleary 2017, 41). House site No. 5 consisted of an arc (diam. c. 6m) of 6 stake-holes in an area with 108 stake-holes. Including Neolithic House 4, the finds were few but there included sherds from at least 2 decorated vessels and 6 Carrowkeel ware vessels. (Eogan and Roche 1997, 58-60) True location: ITM (699645, 773480) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 November 2013 Amended: 17 September 2020

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.