Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Preban, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Preban
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.83677, -6.39740
- SMR number
- WI039-011005-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in the W part of graveyard (WI039-011002-), a decorated stone (0.64m x 0.43m; T 0.32m) the flat face of which has a series of faint circles that have been formed by light pecking. There are at least three conjoined circles at the top of the stone, below these is a circle with a pock mark at the centre and beside this is a pair of conjoined circles. At the bottom of the stone is another circle with two internal pock marks. The circles range from 9cm to 11cm in diameter (Corlett 2013, 12).
See attached image taken from Archaeology Ireland article by Chris Corlett.
Compiled by: Chris Corlett and Claire Breen
Date of upload: 1 May 2013
References
Corlett, C. 2013 Rock Art: Questions and Answers? Archaeology Ireland 27, (3), 12-15.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.