Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock scribing - folk art
Rossalia, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossalia
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14176, -9.03450
- SMR number
- CL003-021005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the NE slope of Abbey Hill c. 30m NW of a holy well (CL003-021001-). A stone carving of a moonlike face beside an inscribed plaque on a leacht cuimhne (CL003-021004-) built to commemorate the Comyn family. Another stone carving from the leacht cuimhne was used in building the stone wall surrounding the well (Coffey 1995, 16-17).
The following image has been uploaded:
CL003-021005-_01.jpg View of carving from S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 12 January 2016
References
Coffey, T. 1995. Fieldnotes. The Other Clare 19, 15-17.
Nearby in the register
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Rock scribing - folk artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.