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
- 53.14154, -9.03452
- SMR number
- CL003-021007-
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 interior N face of the structure surrounding Toberpatrick (CL003-021001-). Several of the structural stones of the holy well bear carvings, inscriptions and graffiti, mostly 19th century. One bears a carved human figure with a moon-like face similar to that on the leacht cuimhne or memorial to the Comyn family (CL003-021004-) c. 30 to the NNW. According to Coffey (1995, 16-17) the rock scribing at the well was originally part of the leacht.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL003-021007-_01.jpg Carved human face amidst later graffiti within holy well.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 31 July 2019
References
Coffey, T. 1995. Fieldnotes. The Other Clare 19, 15-17.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.