Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Kilmissan, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmissan
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57466, -6.84847
- SMR number
- CW022-073----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Incorporated into a N-facing wall in a farmyard that faces W onto the R702 road from the village of Ballymurphy, which is c. 700m to the SW. A rectangular block of stone (H 0.44m; Wth 0.14m) decorated with two rock art motifs, incorporated into a N-facing wall, formerly built into a shed at the same location. It was originally part of a larger stone and both motifs are truncated where the stone was split. The upper motif (dims. 0.15m x 0.1m), consists of a cup (diam. 0.04m) with two concentric circles with a linear grove extending from the cup outwards towards the split edge of the stone. The lower motif (dims. 0.14m x 0.06m) is similar but only half survives. It was first reported by Michael Fortune.
See attached photographs by Michael Moore (taken 2 February 2020):
CW022-073----_01
CW022-073----_02
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 5 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.