Welcome to Fourknocks, a 5,000-year-old megalithic site in Meath
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- Author and guide Anthony Murphy gives a quick introduction to Fourknocks megalithic passage-tomb, a 5,000-year-old monument on the hills of southeastern Meath.
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Beautiful! I was just here this past Sunday. I was blessed to have a friend who showed me your beautiful island and all of her ancient secrets.
Another great video,thanks. Why didn't ya use a torch? Would love to see the stone engravings
Beautiful video and commentary Anthony, thanks again.
Thanks a million Lar. Glad you enjoyed it.
It is amazing to think of how these people of the Stone age were able to build such lodges-tombs- shelters without the help of any machinery to move such big stones and amounts of sand to cover it all.The wheel has not even been invented yet. And the carved drawings on the stones made with other harder stones, so perfect! There have always been some artist full of patience to realize their precious pieces of art! Lucky we are we can see now the hard work and toil of our ancestors some many thousands of years afterwards.
Great insight Anthony; I wonder do you have more information on this place? I'm a Meath native very interested in the ancient sites.
Another great production Anthony..
Thank You 🙏 this video is awesome and to be able to see this
Thank you for this wonderful video Anthony. I wonder what is meant by the name "Fourknocks", particularly the knocks part of that name?
Cnoc means hill in Gaeilge, Irish, & fuair means cold or cool, so "Fuair Cnoc" means cold hill. It sounded like "four knocks" with an Irish accent, to English ears. But the plural of cnoc is cnoic. Gaeilge doesn't pluralize with an s. The British arrived, spoke no Irish, in fact banned it, & wrote things down as they thought they heard them, in their own rather than the actual language. The English added the s on the end bc they thought the first word was "four," said with an accent, & four is plural. The passage tomb mound is also known as Cnoc Fuair, as that order is grammatically correct in its own language. So, cold hill, or cool hill. But it has deeper meaning than temperature & shape.
But when a language was banned so long & lost to so many, (it's still being reclaimed, luckily some areas kept it), theories abound.
A ghost story in which a spirit literally knocks four times as if on a door there to an otherworldly dwelling of the hollow hills variety came about in the 1800s, probably inspired by the mistranslation by people who didn't even know they'd translated half in their assumption & misunderstanding. It's unlikely an ancient mixture of Irish cnoc & English four could happen long before English speaking people were there, or indeed before their language had evolved to how it sounded to them bc English did radically change, multiple times, from the Lower German & words adopted from the cultural mix plus the church. If it was named recently sure, but it's far longer been called that. My cousin was a monk at Mellifont, a linguist, avid reader & historian. It's mentioned in books copied not long after the Viking era when scribes were busy replacing treasures, & books were.
The theory on plural hills, cnocs, which isn't a word, takes it to mean the four nearest tombs in local hills bc of the similar sound of different tongues. But which four? They're not named alike. There aren't just four. Fuair Cnoc is specifically this one, & not plural. The cold hill, the one the sun doesn't illuminate on the solstice, the one aligned with stars, at night when it's cooler; smaller cooler lights, swans not fireballs. It's in the myths. I suppose someone who didn't get out much might have been humored by everyone else if people found it amusing down the pub but the local people have known of way more than four, going back before writing & in Ireland that's ancient times. Years had three numbers. Even weathered & aged, they were clearly much rounder, at least once brush was cleared, than natural hills, & for a time were said to be of the Faeries, Aos Sídhe, the Tuatha de Danann, portals to the Otherworld, homes of the Old Ones or local gods & goddesses depending on viewpoint, in different times or by various tellers, so, yes people knew more than four. Old myths tell of people catching a glimpse of the Tuatha Dé riding out from within them, emerging from the earth, the Otherworld beneath it, zero relation to hell or underworld, a portal to another realm where these mystical people had gone after a clash with a new people, to their own layer of reality invisible to us except if the light's just right or the veil its thinnest. Stories talk of the area dotted with these hills, of Ireland covered with them. And it is. And ring forts, faerie forts. So is England.
I believe the name is the accurate description, especially compared to the other sun aligned chambers, & bc this one faces NE to a snowy swan constellation that winter tales speak of. & I think the controversy is about language & how it was misunderstood. To an Irish speaker, it doesn't sound like four bangs, bc it's named, a cool, unheated, hill. It's a place of a doorway & chamber for cool night starlight, not one to invite the sun into the earth to create a harmony between above & below, but for the stars to be invited too, & welcomed into the symbolic circle there. The last bit may seem like imagining, but these were built by people who placed doorways toward celestial lights, & I don't claim to know exactly why. But I don't think it's overly poetic to say they were inviting those lights in the sky in, when they lined entries up so well with them. & To just say "cold hill," well, would that convey any meaning really? I don't think it's about shivering there at all. I think to them it's the inner part, the heart of it, not any breeze above, that held meaning. And I'd think it's reasonable that the native language would tell the true meaning of it. Really, Cistercian monks get out a bit but not like the rest of us. There's plenty of time to study, & teach. I've found him to be careful, thoughtful & accurate on all his research & I'm inclined to trust his instincts. But you can find other theories in a search. I'd look for sources familiar with the language if this explanation gives you pause.
So Amazing
Why not plan ahead & bring along a torch/flashlight so we can see stuff & get a feel of the space? You said there's no solar alignment, so why grope around when there's no light show? The Ancients would have brought a torch...
Is there a way for someone like myself to be able to visit the inside
Very old.. Definitely predates flashlights 😉
I wonder if it's possible to follow the money on who commissioned the restoration of sites like these.. Truth floats in the end I suppose! The next one found should be filmed from first turned stone to last!
Please bring a lantern.
I say this in all good humor. But did it not occur to ya to bring a light, perhaps? 😁🤷 Just a thought.
(I've changed my settings but it's mostly pitch black & barely shows anything.)
I often wonder if we as people today do not understand the harnessing of frequency so we disturb things that should be left alone releasing someone’s evil frequency back out into our world. Anyone else ever worried about these “smart” people that do things that could effect the whole world without a second thought thinking they know best? Even modern times with massive things that could destroy us all like CERN.
To Dark
Really should of used a light inside
Loved the video, great content and fascinating video. For your international audience could you please tell us what county you are in when you first begin. So much easier to fix your location on the map! Thank you, love all your work!
The title includes "...in Meath," that you may have to click "more" to see, plus then the description appears, in any video & often the info is there not in comments.
(& The channel title is Mythical Ireland if county was autocorrect dropping the r as it may mischievously do.) It's been awhile so you may know by now. Someone else may wish to know.
My favourite thing to do up there when I go I all ways slide down the hill
I have to agree with the comments below, thanks for the effort and uploading but please use a torch or camera light on future videos.
Next time you show it, bring a high powered flash light!
I Love it 🥰