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Rock art (present location)

Tullagee, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art (present location), Tullagee, 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
Tullagee
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.99016, -6.54796
SMR number
LH006-040----

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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

Two sets of multiple circles with radial grooves found on a large stone discovered several inches below the field surface, 30m E of Tullagee house. Subsequently erected on the lawn of Tullagee house. (Tempest 1933, 72-4).

References

Tempest, H. G. 1933 Bronze Age Stone at Tullagee. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 8, No. 1, 72-4.

Nearby in the register

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

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