Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art (present location)
Ballynasilloge, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynasilloge
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61633, -6.91021
- SMR number
- CW022-069----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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
On relatively low-lying ground, with a W facing aspect. Brandon Hill is visible to the SSW and to the WSW are the Coppanagh Hills. A large granite boulder (L 2.5m; Wth 1.5m; T 1.4m) which was originally earthfast and uprooted from the neighbouring field during modern reclamation works. The presence of plough marks on a small area (c. 60cm x 50cm) suggests that only this part of the boulder was originally exposed above the ground surface. Within this area there are at least 6 weathered cup marks, 3 of which are 8cm to 9cm across and 1cm deep, the others averaging 5cm across and 0.5cm deep. There are also a number of other shallow depressions that are quite possibly the remains of further cups, but these are not well-defined.
Compiled by: Claire Breen and Chris Corlett
Date of upload: 5 October 2011
Nearby in the register
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.