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FourWinds F
FourWinds Aug 8, 2006 16:28:01
Replying to fitzcoraldo

Masses of Irish stuff was destroyed in the 1970s or there abouts in County Louth. Bits keep turning up, re-used in souterrains etc. There's a load in Wicklow that's waiting to be rediscovered. I have rough directions to some of it. Some Wicklow based stuff has also been destroyed recently.

Rock art seems to have been a taboo in Ireland at some point, as much of it has been buried or blown up.

H Hob
Hob Aug 8, 2006 22:44:25
Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:
Rock art seems to have been a taboo in Ireland at some point, as much of it has been buried or blown up.
That goes for Northumberland too. Then at some point mid 18thC, it became bad form to quarry carved rocks, but there are some that still bear the preliminary marks of the quarryman's chisel.

I'm not sure if it was because the carvings were taboo, or just that they were on bits of easily quarryable outcrop or boulder. I've not seen any written evidence that carved rocks were targetted specifically beacuse they were carved, but you never know do you?