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Rock scribing - folk art

Rossalia, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock scribing - folk art, Rossalia, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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