Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cupmarked stone
Bobsville, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bobsville
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71561, -7.06931
- SMR number
- ME015-056002-
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
A moss-covered stone (dims 1.5m x 0.9m; T 0.25-0.3m) set upright on its long side in the NW corner of the graveyard (ME015-056007-) of CLonabreaney has about 30-40 cup-marks (diam. 3-5cm) on one face (Moore and Kenny 1976, 34) and may have had more as two shallow hollows probably represent damage. Eogan (2008, 5) tentatively suggests the this and other stones of megalithic proportions may have derived from a passage tomb.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
See the attached image.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 August, 2014
References
Eogan, G. 2008 A cupmarked stone at Bobsvile (Clonabreany), Co. Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, 19, 1-14
Moore, B. F. E. and Kenny, M. 1976 Tombstones in Clonabreany graveyard. Ríocht na Midhe, 6, 2, 16-36.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.