Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock scribing - folk art
Fanta Glebe, County Clare, Ireland
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----
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
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.