Lost Rock Art at Coumbeg, Portroe, Co. Tipperary

Back in 2022 I received a newspaper cutting from a friend of mine, Joe Ryan Cooper about a bit of lost rock art in the Arra area. He said along the lines of, you probably already know about this one but just sending it on anyway! I didn't and I hadn't heard of it! 

The newspaper was the Nenagh Guardian and it referred to an article by Maurice Lenihan in the Tipperary Vindicator / Limerick Reporter. 

I wrote a detailed article about it in the Annals of Arra Vol. 5 under the title "Alleged Megalith in Coumbeg". 

I have since knocked on doors and walked a lot of the townland looking for this possible rock art, to no avail. 

Recently AI has been able to generate images from sketches and I thought it might be interesting to see what the sketch of it would look like in "real" life. 

Here is it - 

Created using Google Gemini

Hopefully some day this stone will turn up again sometime. As of now, my hunch is that it may be covered over. 

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