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
- 53.70588, -6.44211
- SMR number
- ME020-080----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A stone (dims c. 1.5m x c. 1.5m; max. T 0.4m) with two spiral motifs of passage tomb art was discovered in 2014 in the ha-ha to the east of Dowth Hall (pers. comm. Clíodhna Ní Lionáin, 6 January 2015).
See attached screenshot of 3D model of rock art created by Wicklow Rock Art Project, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin under the direction of Dr. Clíodhna Ní Lionáin. Photogrammetric 3D rock art model can be accessed at the following website: https://skfb.ly/68oBQ
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Revised date of upload: 6 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.