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Rock art

Kilmissan, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art, Kilmissan, 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
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 Amsterdam

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

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

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

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