Rock art (present location)

The National Monuments Service's description

The stone marks the entrance to a housing estate, and has the estate's name 'Coves Brook' and the year '1999' carved on one side. There are a number of large granite boulders placed in various points in the green areas of this estate, and it seems most likely that they were all found during the construction of the estate. Therefore, the rock art itself may have come from quite close to its present location. The general aspect here is of a S-facing slope with good commanding views S, towards Slieveboy in Co. Wexford. The granite boulder (dims. L 1.6m; Wth 1m; T 0.8m) is now placed on its edge, with the decorated side now on a vertical face, but originally the stone was most likely positioned so that the decoration occurred on the upper horizontal surface of the stone. The stone was probably formerly earthfast, and plough marks that score the edge of the decorated surface suggest that only a small portion of the boulder originally protruded above the ground surface. Most of the decoration occurs on a relatively flat face. There are two double ring and cup motifs (cup diams. 5cms; D 1.5 - 2cm; enclosing rings ext. diams 12cm and 18cm). There is another cup with traces of a ring (ext. diam. 20cm across) but it is unclear if there is also an inner circle in this case. There are also some six cup marks scattered across this face, while the surface of the stone rises above the flat surface at one side, and there are two further cups on this ridge. (The unknown original location of this monument is designated WI047-018001-.)

See attached screenshots of 3D model of rock art created by Wicklow Rock Art Project, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin under the direction of Dr. Clíodhna Ní Lionáin. Photogrammetric 3D rock art model can be accessed at the following website: https://skfb.ly/y9TX

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 24 July 2017