What is recorded here

Dowth ridge still holds a tall carved stone, its spirals and cup marks waiting beside the Newgrange entry kiosk. The flat face survived a drain and damage, but the bulbous side preserves an eight-turn spiral that seems to keep turning in the dark. Perhaps a hand traced those lines at dawn, reading motion and memory in stone rather than forgetting them.

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

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to c. 3200–2500 BCE. The site is part of the Boyne Valley complex, significant for its megalithic art and association with early ceremonial and funerary practices in Ireland.

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