Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Carrowreagh Or Craignacally, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowreagh Or Craignacally
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 55.29370, -7.34753
- SMR number
- DG003-012016-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Identified by Van Hoek in 1987 and described as 'An isolated site S. of the main group and some 335m ESE. of Ballymacmoriarty farm. The rock forms part of an escarpment and slopes down some 13 degrees to the SW. Near its E end is a large (8cm) cupmark, slightly off-centre, surrounded by one faint complete ring' (Van Hoek 1987, 28).
Van Hoek, M.A. M. (1987) 'The prehistoric rock art of County Donegal (part 1)' UJA vol. 50, 23-46.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 30 May 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.