Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Tawnatruffaun, County Sligo, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.