Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Ballinvally, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvally
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.75610, -7.10995
- SMR number
- ME009-105----
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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
This is one of three decorated stones found in a ringfort in Ballinvalley, county Meath when it was levelled in the 1940's. This stone ‘8 feet by 5 feet (c. 2.45m x c. 1.5m)’ was profusely decorated with numerous cupmarks and a double penannular ring with two radials. This stone appears to have been reburied at the location. (Shee Twohig 2001, 120, C; Shee Twohig et al. 2010, 21)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 March, 2017
References
Shee Twohig, E. 2001 Change and Continuity: post passage tomb ceremonial near Lougcrew, Co. Meath. Revue archéologique de l'Ouest, Supplement No. 9, 113-24.
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.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.