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Rock art

Glannakilleenagh, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art, Glannakilleenagh, County Cork, 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
Glannakilleenagh
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
51.58786, -9.41667
SMR number
CO131-076----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 rocky area of outcrop (56m OD), partially covered by vegetation, within house plot, c. 10m to E of small outbuilding. On W side of Leamawaddra River valley; Good view of Mount Kid to NE. A very rough and fractured expanse of rock outcrop (dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 20m E-W) which has deep fractures and fissures, some filled with mosses and lichens; Natural striations and natural pocked solution marks across this rock expanse. The decorated surface has a gentle E-facing aspect and bears three motifs. A long, linear, very eroded groove (long-axis N-S; L 2.90m; Wth 10cm; D 15cm) with four similar sized, roughly parallel linear grooves (max. L 1.80m) intersecting at a right angle. The linear grooves are defined by a series of large solution marks which could potentially represent eroded cupmarks. An unusual, roughly circular feature (dims. 20cm N-S; 19cm E-W; Wth 1-2cm; D 2cm) defined by a deep linear groove is c. 1.4m to E; A large deeply eroded solution mark is abutting to S of latter. A much smoother stone surface with a large, circular motif (dims. 0.55m N-S; 0.50m E-W) defined by a shallow curvilinear groove (Wth 2-3cm; D 1cm) and enclosing a central cupmark (dims. 10cm E-W; 9cm N-S; D 13mm), is located c. 4.4m to SW of the linear grooves.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 4 December 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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