Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Passage tomb art
Dowth, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dowth
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69923, -6.45542
- SMR number
- ME019-128----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the S-facing slope of the Dowth ridge. The stone is indicated as a feature on the 1908 edition of the OS 6-inch map and it is now displayed for at the entry kiosk to the great passage tomb at Newgrange (ME019-045----). It is described (O’Kelly 1967, 45-6, Pl. 2) as large (max. dims 1.22m x 1.06m; H 1.98m) with art on the two large faces. The flat face had been visible in a drain and was damaged. It has a spiral close to one edge with what are probably two pairs of concentric circles adjacent. A possible serpent motif beneath these terminates in a cup-mark and there are two other cup-marks on this surface. The other, more bulbous side has a spiral of eight turns with an attached circle. Cross-reference with ME019-041001-.
See attached photographs taken from O'Kelly 1967, Pl. 2
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 September 2018
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1967 Two examples of megalithic art from the Newgrange area. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 97, 45-46.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.