Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Kilwarden, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilwarden
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24781, -6.56469
- SMR number
- KD020-018----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered in 1990 when a 'rough circle or arc of boulders' (est. diam. c. 20m) was cleared off the SE slope of Kill hill, c. 500m E of a hilltop enclosure (KD020-001----). It consists of a boulder of green Silurian slate (dims. L 1.54m; Wth 0.96m; H 0.4m) that has two surfaces decorated with two large, complex motifs consisting of cupmarks surrounded by alternating bands of small pecked cups and rings. There are also several ringed cups enclosed by bands of small cups, and simple ringed cupmarks (one with radial grooves), with the rest of one surface covered in small shallow cupmarks. The removed 'rough circle or arc of boulders', of chiefly Silurian slate with some red conglomerate, may have been the remnants of a cairn (Brindley 1987-91). The stone was removed to the National Museum of Ireland in 1993 (NMI 1994:58; DU018-412----).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 19 March 2014
References
Brindley, A. L. 1987-91 Rock art at Kilwarden. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 17, 202-5.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.