Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Corstown (fore By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corstown (fore By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74564, -7.11501
- SMR number
- ME015-113----
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 sandstone erratic (max. dims 1.9m x 1.2m) is on the NW-facing slope of Carnbane East and has is the most northerly of three surfaces exposed here. There is art on its upper surface, which slopes up to the S. The art has been fully recorded by Shee Twohig (et al. 2010, 14-15, fig. 5) and consists of a cup and circle conjoined with a cup and double circle at one edge, two cupmarks and shallow cup and circle close to a cup and double circle at a broken edge of the stone.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 March, 2017
References
Shee Twohig, E., Roughly, C., Shell, C., O'Reilly, C., Clarke, P. and G. Swanston 2010 Open-air rock art at Loughcrew, Co. Meath. Journal of Irish Archaeology, vol. 19, 1-28.
Nearby in the register
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.