Knowth

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Knowth [Ir. Cnobga]. One of the three great passage-tombs, 280 feet in diameter, 40–50 feet high, at the Bend of the Boyne [Brug na Bóinne], 1.7 miles NW of the better-known Newgrange and Dowth. Buí, wife of Lug Lámfhota, has special associations with Knowth, and Írusán, King of the Cats, lives in a cave here. The kings of northern Brega were thought to live at Knowth in early Christian times, and the Hiberno-Norman baron Richard de Flemming claimed it c.1175. The only Boyne passage-grave never made open to the public, Knowth has been the subject of intense scrutiny, beginning in the mid-1960s.

Bibliography

See George Eogan , Excavations at Knowth 1 (Dublin, 1984);
Knowth and the Passage Tombs of Ireland (London, 1986).

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