What is recorded here

Dowth is a passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland, where ancient people buried their dead and marked the chamber walls with spiral art. The chamber is narrow and dark, but the spirals still turn like water remembered in stone. They may have mapped breath, birth or the path of the dead, because repetition makes a shape into a language. To stand inside Dowth is to touch that language, since the chamber keeps the shape of the people who first entered it.

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

Neolithic passage tomb art; dates to c. 3200–2500 BCE. The stone with spiral motifs is significant as an example of megalithic art associated with the passage tomb complex at Dowth, one of the major ceremonial sites in the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Area.

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