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Rock art (present location)

Clogher, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art (present location), Clogher, County Westmeath, 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
Clogher
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.52535, -7.78557
SMR number
WM016-043----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

This stone stands in the garden of a house at the eastern extremity of the townland of Clogher. It has been described by O’Reilly (2010, 79-80) as follows: ‘In 1998 Jim Higgins reported a further rock art discovery from Corbrack townland, Tang. This stone, standing at approximately 1.7m in height and 1.69m in maximum width, is one of a pair of sandstone boulders that had been moved from their original position beside the road some years before. The decoration on the stone consists of thirty or more circular and oval cup-marks as well as at least two ringed cup-marks and a series of artificial grooves. About half way up the left-hand side of the stone is a particularly deep cup-mark measuring 13cm in diameter and approximately 8cm deep. This hollow has a ring pecked into the stone about 3cm from its edge enclosing the cup-mark The second of the two stones has no rock art discernible, although it is possible that some exists on the surfaces that are no longer visible since the stone was moved.’

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 30 August 2013

References

Higgins, J. 1998 A new rock-art discovery from Tang, Co. Westmeath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 128, 121-4.

O'Reilly, D. 2010 Some forgotten prehistoric rock art from the hill of Uisneach, Co. Westmeath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 140, 75-82.

Nearby in the register

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

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