Tag: Barndarrig

Cup-Marked Stone:  OS Grid Reference – SG 21609 42273

Also Known as:

1. Ballykean ‘Stone L’ (Kinihan 1884)

Archaeology & History

This is one of at least fourteen petroglyphs in this parish that have been either lost or destroyed since their initial description in the 19th century.  It was described in George Kinihan’s (1884) survey as a “flat irregular stone, sloping slightly towards the east: the cups are seven in number”, in a design similar to that of the constellation of Cassiopeia.  When the Archaeological Survey of Ireland looked for the carving in 1990 it could not be located.  Corlett (2014) suggests that a collection of rocks in a hollow to the north may conceal this and some of the other carvings in this cluster.

References:

1. Corlett, Christiaan, Inscribing the Landscape: The Rock Art of South Leinster, Wordwell: Dublin 2014.
2. Kinihan, George H., “Proceedings: Cup-marked and Inscribed Stones in the Counties of Wicklow and Wexford”, in Journal Royal Society Antiquaries Ireland, (4th series) volume 6, 1884.

© Paul Bennett, The Northern Antiquarian

Cup-Marked Stone (lost):  OS Grid Reference – SG 21584 42271

Also Known as:

1. Ballykean ‘Stone K’ (Kinihan 1884)

Archaeology & History

This is one of at least fourteen petroglyphs in this parish that have been either lost or destroyed since their initial description in the 19th century.  It was described in George Kinihan’s (1884) survey as being, “a small peaked stone, having on the western side two small cups.”  The carving has not been seen since then and he seems to have made no sketches of the stone.  When the Archaeological Survey of Ireland looked for the carving in 1990 it could not be located.

References:

1. Corlett, Christiaan, Inscribing the Landscape: The Rock Art of South Leinster, Wordwell: Dublin 2014.
2. Kinihan, George H., “Proceedings: Cup-marked and Inscribed Stones in the Counties of Wicklow and Wexford”, in Journal Royal Society Antiquaries Ireland, (4th series) volume 6, 1884.

© Paul Bennett, The Northern Antiquarian

Cup-Marked Stone (lost):  OS Grid Reference – SG 21537 42375

Also Known as:

1. Ballykean ‘Stone F’ (Kinihan 1884)

Archaeology & History

This is one of at least fourteen petroglyphs in this parish that have been either lost or destroyed since their initial description in the 19th century.  It was described in George Kinihan’s (1884) survey as being, “a slightly dome-shaped stone, its surface being nearly level with that of the ground.  The cups are both numerous and deep…although bits of the surface have been flaked off by fire.”  He took a rubbing of the stone which showed nineteen cup-marks on its upper surface.  When the Archaeological Survey of Ireland looked for the carving in 1990 it could not be located; and when Christiaan Corlett (2014) described this and the other carvings in this cluster, he thought that a group of stones dumped “in a hollow area north of the field” might possibly be where it had been moved to—although no such carvings have been identified there.

References:

1. Corlett, Christiaan, Inscribing the Landscape: The Rock Art of South Leinster, Wordwell: Dublin 2014.
2. Kinihan, George H., “Proceedings: Cup-marked and Inscribed Stones in the Counties of Wicklow and Wexford”, in Journal Royal Society Antiquaries Ireland, (4th series) volume 6, 1884.

© Paul Bennett, The Northern Antiquarian