Rock Art, Dublin South City

Rock art (present location) in Ireland, dating from the Bronze Age

This stone was found by Macalister and Praeger (1929-31) in the course of their excavations of the ringfort at Togherstown, Co. Westmeath (see WM024-028001-). The stone has been described by O’Reilly (2010, 76-7) as follows: ‘Macalister and Praeger's report on their excavations at Togherstown on the northern slopes of the Hill of Uisneach was published in 1931. Included in the excavation report was a drawing and description of a small fragment of a stone decorated with prehistoric rock art that had been re-used as a paving slab in the courtyard of the early medieval ringfort. . . . The Togherslown stone is a fragment of local sandstone measuring approximately 38 x 36 x 10cm that seems to have been broken off a larger stone in the vicinity at some stage before being deposited at Togherstown. The excavators believed it to have been decorated on three surfaces, and recorded that it was 'inscribed on both faces and one edge (presumably the original top) with bronze-age spiral ornament. The side which had been turned uppermost in the pavement where it was found was abraded by footwear: but the lower side was, if anything, rather more injured by weathering, except along one edge where the surface was bevelled and preserved its carving quite sharp'. The ornament on the uppermost face and the bevelled edge is indeed clear, but that on the third face is less convincing. When examined an

Type:
Rock art (present location)

Period:
Bronze Age

Coordinates:
53.34°N, 6.25°W

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