Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cupmarked stone
Spinans East, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Spinans East
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.95399, -6.62811
- SMR number
- WI027-100----
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
In native woodland with stream forming townland boundary with Cloghnagaune 60m to S, in an area known locally as the ‘Chair Field’. St. Bridget’s Chair (WI027-031002-) 150m to S and St. Bridget’s Well (WI027-031003-) 200m to SSE. Large boulder in woodland the surface of which has at least 16 cup marks with two or three lines running across the surface of the rock.
See attached photo supplied courtesy of Paul Carberry
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Paul Carberry
Date of upload: 8 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.