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Rock art

Carrickrobin, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art, Carrickrobin, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrickrobin
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.00576, -6.50688
SMR number
LH006-033002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007

Stone bearing a number of motifs, including several cup and ring marks, in one instance interlinked. In the lower section is a double ring with a groove running from the centre through the rings and several small indentations equally spaced around the inner ring. This is exactly the same motif used in the Ballinloughan Rock 4 (LH006-119----). The upper third of the stone is divided off by a broad groove reminiscent of the entrance markers in the Boyne Valley passage graves. The shape of the stone suggests that it was used as a kerb stone in a passage grave, then recut at the base and reused in the Bronze Age as a marker stone. The stone has been removed to the National Museum (see also LH006-033003-). (Tempest 1931, 287-9)

References

Tempest, H. G. 1931 Bronze Age carved stone at Carrickrobin. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 7, No.3, 387-8.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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