Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Tailtin, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tailtin
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicaetd
- Coordinates
- 53.70001, -6.78159
- SMR number
- ME017-031004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Inside the W perimeter of the graveyard (ME017-031001-)at Teltown a piece of rock-outcrop (dims c. 0.7m x c. 0.5m; H o.4m) is decorated with rock-art consisting of two concentric incised lines (ext. diam. c. 0.2m) picked with broad, shallow lines (Wth c. 1.2cm). (Eogan 2006, 19, 20; 2011, 12-13; No. 18)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 January, 2016
References
Eogan, G. 2006 Some archaeological sites at Tailteann and environs, Co. Meath (with Appendix by Patricia Ryan on the Donaghpatrick Scartch Dial) Ríocht na Mídhe 17, 16-31.
Eogan, G. 2011 Some individual stones with prehistoric art from County Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, vol. 22, 1-19.
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.