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
- 52.83674, -6.39672
- SMR number
- WI039-011008-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in the E part of graveyard (WI039-011002-), a thin, flat slab of schist stone (L 0.93m; Wth 0.63m; T 8.5cm) with 23 randomly scattered cup marks (avg. diam. 3- 4cm; D 0.5cm - 2cm), on one face. The largest cup has a diameter of 5cm. The surface has clearly flaked away, and is particularly noticeable along one edge. There are no cup marks on the opposite face.
Compiled by: Chris Corlett and Claire Breen
Date of upload: 05 November 2013
Attached image taken by C. Corlett.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.