Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock scribing
Tinure, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tinure
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78962, -6.40608
- SMR number
- LH021-008----
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
A rock outcrop situated in swampy ground. The decoration is carved on the vertical south-east face of a section of rock (1.75m high, 1.40m wide and 0.40m thick) that has cracked away from the parent rock. It remains, undoubtedly as it always has been, in this earth fast position. The rock leans slightly to the south-east and the scribings are found on the upp two thirds area. The carvings include various intersecting radial lines and dots. Since recorded by Tempest (1939) additional markings, dates and initials have been added.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 27 September 2013
References
Tempest, H.G. 1939 A Pre-Historic Scribed Rock in Tinure T.L.. In County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 9 (3), 248-57.
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