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Rock art

Cappaghkennedy, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art, Cappaghkennedy, 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
Cappaghkennedy
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.02704, -9.03445
SMR number
CL010-028001-

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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

Within Cappaghkennedy wedge tomb (CL010-028----). Westopp (1905, 223) included a stylised drawing of what he termed a ‘basin stone’ within SW corner of the wedge tomb. It appeared to measure c. 0.75m in length and 0.6m in width and it showed a boulder with what seem like 5 cupmarks in a circle on its upper surface. A stone with five apparent cupmarks on one surface was noted within the tomb by Elaine Lynch in 2024. A photograph of the stone in the Clare Library photographic archive shows a central cupmark with four around it (https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/photographic_archive.htm). This may be the stone as drawn by Westropp and is classified as a form of rock art.

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

 

Date of upload: 26 November 2025

References

Westropp, T. J. 1905 Prehistoric remains (Forts and Dolmens) along the borders of Burren, in the county of Clare. Part 1 – The Eastern Border. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 35, 205-29.

Nearby in the register

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

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