Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art (present location)
Forenaghts Great, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forenaghts Great
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22362, -6.60222
- SMR number
- KD019-024003-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Found in 1975 during ploughing (location designated KD019-025----) c. 100m S of Furness Church (KD019-024001-) in the graveyard of which (KD019-024002-) it now lies. A boulder of local metamorphosed greywacke (dims. L 1.33m; Wth 0.97m; H 0.50m) is decorated on one face with a pattern of six groups of concentric circles, cupmarks and combinations of both. (Shee 1975-6, 496-500; Meagher 1974-9, 118)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.