Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Passage tomb art
Mullagharoy, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullagharoy
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76335, -6.56511
- SMR number
- ME013-013----
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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
Located at the crest of the S-facing slope of a low W-E spur. The SW face of this upright stone (dims c. 0.66m NNW-SSE; 0.34-0.5m E-W; max H 1.03m) is ornamented with picked concentric circles and arc designs that is somewhat anthropomorphic in appearance and in the tradition of passage-tomb art. (Eogan and O'Broin 1998)
See the attached drawing from Eogan and O'Broin (1998, fig. 1)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 27 June, 2014
Amended: 3 August 2022
References
Eogan, E. and O'Brion, N. 1998 A decorated stone a Mullagharoy, Co. Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, 9, 4, 10-15.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.