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Rock art

Crannagh, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art, Crannagh, 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
Crannagh
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.60654, -6.79582
SMR number
CW023-027----

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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

Situated on the lower, S facing slopes of the Mountain River valley on the SW slopes of Mount Leinster. The summit of Mount Leinster dominates the head of the valley at the NE, and the summit of Knockroe dominates the view to the S. Elsewhere, the views out of the valley have quite a restricted visual field in a SW direction only, and are dominated by Brandon Hill and the Coppanagh Hills, as well as the distant summit of Slievenamon, Co. Tipperary.
A large, low-level earthfast boulder (2m NW-SE, 1.6m NE-SW, H 0.2m) the surface of which falls 15cm from NW to SE. Near the W edge is a small cup mark (diam. 4cm; D 1cm) enclosed by four circles. The outer circle has a diam. of 32cm. Nearby is a cup (diam. 3.5cm; D 0.5cm) enclosed by a single ring, beside which is a cup (diam. 4cm; D 1cm) enclosed by two rings (total diam. 20cm). Near the centre of the stone are two further cup marks. All the motifs are very faint. Immediately to the N is another low-level boulder on which there are no markings.

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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