Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Knockbrack, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbrack
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.69681, -6.75191
- SMR number
- CW017-029----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 9 August 2010
Granite boulder (decorated surface, 0.80m x 0.88m). Surface prepared before decoration, with bevel around edge of stone. Decoration consists of eleven cupmarks, and eleven grooved lines, radiating from larger of two cup and circle symbols. Fairly worn surface.
Nearby in the register
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.