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Rock art (present location)

Ballynasilloge, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art (present location), Ballynasilloge, County Carlow, 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
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----

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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

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

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