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Rock art

Carrickmines Great, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art, Carrickmines Great, 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
Carrickmines Great
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.25298, -6.17496
SMR number
DU026-146----

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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 is one of three small boulders (DU026-145/147----) containing cup-marks which were discovered during archaeological investigations on the route of the South-Eastern Motorway (Clinton 2002, 87; 2004, 131).
Rock B described by Dr Muriris O'Sullivan as a; 'Slightly rounded granite boulder (00E0525:1:6094). The surface into which the cupmarks are carved is convex in form with a fault line running along the centre of the face for approximately half its length. This face measures 0.60m x 0.48m. There are at least nine cupmarks to be seen on the face, generally clustered near the centre and arranged in two loose arcs, with an outlier. Three of them are formed along the fault line and these might conceivably be natural' (Breen 2012, 397).

Breen, T. 2012 Report on the Findings of the Archaeological Excavations at Carrickmines, Co. Dublin - Carried out under licences 00E0525, 02E1532 and Ministerial Directions. M50 South-eastern Motorway Scheme
4 volumes. Prepared on behalf of V.J. Keely Ltd. for Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.

See attached drawing of rock art taken from Breen 2012, Fig. 8.3.2

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 4 January 2023

References

Clinton, M. 2002 Clomoney North. I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2000. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 22-4, No. 63. Wordwell. Dublin

Nearby in the register

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

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