Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Ballinvally, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvally
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75665, -7.11810
- SMR number
- ME009-055001-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The underside of the capstone (dims 1.25m x. 0.9m; T 0.1m) of a cist investigated in 1935 (Raftery 2011) has a double concentric circle and three motifs of triple concentric circles. The design is lightly picked, and the stone is now in NMI (1935: 542). (Shee 1972, 228-9; Shee Twohig et a. 2010, 21)
References
Raftery, J. 2011 3:56 Ballinvally, Co. Meath, E1127. in Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, vol. 1, 345-8. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Shee Twohig, E., Roughly, C., Shell, C., O'Reilly, C., Clarke, P. and G. Swanston 2010 Open-air rock art at Loughcrew, Co. Meath. Journal of Irish Archaeology, vol. 19, 1-28.
Shee, E. 1972 Three decorated stones from Loughcrew, Co. Meath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 102, 224-33.
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.