Knowth Virtual Tour

Bryn Coldrick was a real-life tour guide at Knowth, whose deep knowledge and passion for the site brought its long history to life for visitors. We are very grateful that he has made his tour guide notes available, allowing this virtual tour of Knowth to reflect the experience of being guided through the monument by someone who knew it so well.

Knowth Virtual Guide - Section 1

Earliest evidence of settlement.
Megalithic Passage Tomb construction.
Bronze Age - Beaker People.
Iron Age - Celtic period.
Early Christian period.
The Norman period.
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Aerial view of Knowth Great Mound with kerbstones, summit ruins, access path and satellite mounds.

Knowth Great Mound and Satellite Mounds.

Knowth Virtual Guide - Section 2

The main mound.
Western passage.
Kerbstones.
Quartz and granite stones.
Megalithic Art.
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Knowth Kerbstone K15 with radiating lines from a cupmark forming a fan pattern and a spiral carved on the right.

Kerbstone K15, photographed during excavations at Knowth.

Knowth Virtual Guide - Section 3

Souterrains.
Neolithic house.
Early Christian house.
Medieval kiln.
Eastern Passage.
Macehead.
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Ground plan of Knowth Mound showing 127 kerbstones, the western passage and the eastern cruciform passage.