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Cupmarked stone (present location)

Ballinteer, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cupmarked stone (present location), Ballinteer, County Dublin, 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
Ballinteer
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.27487, -6.25325
SMR number
DU022-118001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This rectangular-shaped stone (L 1.6m x Wth 0.95m x H 0.55m) has been moved to its present location on a green area in front of Ballinteer Shopping Centre, Co. Dublin. The original location of this rock is unknown. The surface of the stone has four-circular-shaped cup-marks  (diam. 6-8cm x D 3cm) on the surface of the stone standing on a green area between the car-park and the public road (Ballinteer Avenue). The antiquity of this stone is uncertain and there is evidence of stone cutting marks on the sides of the stone which may suggest that these cup-marks are related to stone working rather than prehistoric art, but this is uncertain. 

 

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Martin Fitzmaurice

Nearby in the register

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

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