Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Lemnaheltia, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lemnaheltia
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56134, -9.87818
- SMR number
- GA023-013001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with a rock shelter (GA023-013----), which consists of a massive overhanging rectangular boulder. A single cupmark is visible on a rock shelf on a boulder in a chamber under the overhanging boulder. The cupmark was noted by Inez Streeskerk who brought it to the attention of Michael Gibbons.
The uploaded images were supplied by M. Gibbons – view of cupmark
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by Michael Gibbons
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 12 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Rock shelterunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.