Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Carrowreagh Or Craignacally, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowreagh Or Craignacally
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 55.29700, -7.34422
- SMR number
- DG003-017002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1841 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Scotland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1900 · 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 'A few metres NNW of DON 6 (DG003-016----) is a long and smooth outcrop in grassland. It has some interesting features: from its W end, where it slopes 9 degrees ESE, to its E end, where it slopes 16 degrees NE, is a row of 12 cupmarks. Three of these are normally pocked cupmarks, but eight consist of very shallow and large disc-cups (cf. DON 13 and 28), some of which have been almost completely worn off. The westernmost disc-cup might have a partial large ring. At the extreme E end is another unusual feature, consisting of a ring which encloses a small cupmark on a low boss' (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.