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
- 53.74074, -7.11793
- SMR number
- ME015-116----
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 is embedded in the ground on at the crest of a SW-facing slope of Carnbane East, and has been fully recorded by Shee Twohig (et al. 2010, 11). The carved surface (dims 1.2m x 0.6m) slopes upwards to the NE and has a weathered cupmark and shallow arcs of a circle.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.