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Rock scribing - folk art

Fanta Glebe, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock scribing - folk art, Fanta Glebe, 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
Fanta Glebe
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.99468, -9.23715
SMR number
CL009-180----

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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

In grass immediately to the E of a driveway to a house, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). This rectangular limestone slab (L 0.72m; Wth 0.31m; min. T 0.08m), lying flat on the ground, bears an incised carving of a hand (H c. 0.24m) as well as the letter E and other carvings. According to a local source, the name ‘Janet’ was inscribed on the stone and the hand marked the place where a chalice and other sacred paraphernalia were buried during Penal Times. When a shadow fell on the hand, it indicated the hiding place of these objects. There were supposedly five other such stones in the Kilfenora district - see also CL016-008----.

The following image has been uploaded: CL009-180----_01.jpg View from SE

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 4 May 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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