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Rock art

Ballintemple, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art, Ballintemple, County Wicklow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballintemple
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.83410, -6.25791
SMR number
WI040-011007-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

Situated on gentle N-facing slope with steep valley of the Aughrim River to the NE. Bride's Well (WI040-011001-) c. 150m to the NW. Cropmark of levelled ringfort (WI040-031---) in field to S. Decorated stone discovered in 2010 (Corlett 2013, 13) standing in SW quadrant of Ballintemple graveyard (WI040-011003-) and SW of the levelled medieval church site (WI040-011002). The D-shaped graveyard may preserve the line of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (WI040-011004-). Graveyard may have been used as a children's burial ground (WI040-011005-).

Site not currently accessible due to dense cover of vegetation inside graveyard, previously described by Dr. Clíodhna Ní Lionáin of the UCD Wicklow Rock Art project as a thin, sub-rectangular shaped slab (dims. L 1.05m x Wth 0.6m x T 0.11m) which may not be in its original location. The stone is decorated with 8 circular cupmarks (diam. 3cm-9cm), 5 linear grooves or oblong-shaped cupmarks, and an unusual larger motif, which appears almost like a footprint (www.wicklowrockartproject.com).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 30 May 2017

References

Corlett, C. 2013 Rock Art: Questions and Answers? Archaeology Ireland 27, (3), 12-15.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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