Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Tankardsrock, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tankardsrock
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.00994, -6.45606
- SMR number
- LH007-102----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (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
Slightly sloping rock plateau with two cup and ring motifs, one of which has radial grooves running from the central cup. Some of these grooves may be natural fissures or old plough marks. The other motif has an adjacent curving line. (CLAJ 1982, 110)
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.