Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Decorated stone
Lockstown Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lockstown Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07222, -6.53388
- SMR number
- WI016-017----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as 'Rock art' in the SMR (1986) this is the original location of the stone known as the 'Holywood stone' which was found here in 1908. The stone is carved with a labyrinth pattern and is on display in the Visitor Centre at Glendalough (WI023-009063-). (Orpen 1911; Price and Walshe 1933, 48)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 25 February 2014
References
Orpen, G. 1911 Carved stone near Holywood, Co. Wicklow. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 183-5.
Price, L. and Walshe, P.T. 1933 Stone and Bronze Age antiquities of the barony of Lower Talbotstown, Co. Wicklow with a description of the excavation of Haylands Mote, near Blessington. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 63, 46-67.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.