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Rock art (present location)

Rathgeran, County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art (present location), Rathgeran, 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
Rathgeran
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.57423, -6.83330
SMR number
CW023-033----

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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

Sitting alongside a field fence, on a gentle SE facing slope with good views of the Blackstairs to the SE, and Mount Leinster and Knockroe to the NE. A small granite boulder (L 0.72m; Wth 0.35m; T 0.2m) with 22 cup marks (average diam. 4cm; D 0.5cm - 2cm) visible on one flat surface. The surface is also scored with plough marks, indicating that the stone was originally a low-level, recumbent slab. Original location unknown.

Compiled by: Claire Breen and Chris Corlett

Date of upload: 4 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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