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Rock art

Tawnatruffaun, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art, Tawnatruffaun, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tawnatruffaun
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.19819, -8.92084
SMR number
SL017-062----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This is one of two 'flagstones' recorded as bearing incised 'dot and circle' motifs incorporated into a drystone field wall at Tawntruffaun portal tomb (SL017-051----). This stone is in the base of the wall and is 4.9m SE of the tomb. The upper face upon which the motif is positioned is flat and steep-sided. The carving, which is faint, consists of a single horse-shoe shaped motif at the S angle of the stone. (Wood-Martin 1987-8, 282-3; Kilgannon 1926, 299-300; Weir 1980, 210). The exact location of the second stone (SL017-059----) is unknown.

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 25 May 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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