Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Cregg, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregg
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.83352, -6.73497
- SMR number
- ME006-060----
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
This stone was discovered during 1994 when a field bank was removed. It is a rough sandstone pillar with a blunt pointed top and a triangular cross-section (H 0.45m; dims c. 0.25m x c. 0.17m). There are four incised V motifs on one face. (Corlett 1999; Eogan 2011, 13)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 March, 2017
References
Eogan, G. 2011 Some individual stones with prehistoric art from County Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, vol. 22, 1-19.
Corlett, C. 1996 Primitive incised markings on a stone from Cregg near Nobber, Co. Meath. Riocht na Mídhe, vol. 9, No. 2, 27-9.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.