Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Hempstown Commons, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hempstown Commons
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.20260, -6.50544
- SMR number
- KD020-015002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1949, a cist (KD020-015001-) was accidentally uncovered during the bulldozing of topsoil from the highest point of a low drumlin to expose gravel deposits. It was roofed by two slabs, one of which was decorated on its underside. It is a sandstone slab, roughly triangular in shape with one end coming to a point (dims. L 1m; max Wth 0.7m; T 0.2m). One surface carried a pecked decorative pattern of several scattered motifs, including a penannular or horseshoe-shaped pecked area, small pecked cupmarks, a pair of conjoined pecked circles, irregular patches of pecking, and a pecked lozenge-shaped area with an incised outline. (Hartnett 1950, 193-8; Waddell 1970, 120)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.