Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock scribing
Clonroad More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonroad More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.83668, -8.97689
- SMR number
- CL033-118----
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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 flat low-lying ground beside a high wall at the entrance to Cregaun housing estate, c. 50m W of the public road. A limestone glacial erratic (c. 4m x 3m, H 2.5-3m) with an inscribed face on the lower SE side. The top half of the face is broken off. On inspection in 2000 the broken part lay on the ground nearby. The face had very large ears, a narrow straight nose and pointed eyes. Rynne (1985, 79) cites parallels with carvings dating to the Romanesque and Transitional periods. A small mound (CL033-177----) was noted very close to the erratic in 1996 during clearance in advance of construction of Cregaun estate and a small hut site (CL033-176----) was also noted nearby. (Rynne 1985, 78-80; Coffey 1996, 57-8)
CL033-118---_01.jpg attached. Photo: Etienne Rynne 1986.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 23 June 2014
References
Coffey, T. 1996 Field notes. The Other Clare 20, 57-8.
Rynne, E. 1985 Face carved on a boulder at Clonroadmore, Ennis. NMAJ 27, 78-80.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.