I've created a map showing the distribution of all rock art locations across Ireland. Northern Ireland data looks quite poor, so apologies for this, but I’m reliant on what is recorded by the government dataset unfortunately.
The map is populated with a combination of National Monument Service data (Republic of Ireland) and Department for Communities data for Northern Ireland. The map was built using some PowerQuery transformations and then designed in QGIS.
I previously mapped a bunch of other ancient monument types, the latest being Megalithic sites across Ireland.
This is the static version of the map, but I’ve also created an interactive map which I’ve linked in the comment below for those interested in more detail and analysis.
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For those who want to see the data sources check out [NMS here ](https://www.archaeology.ie/collections-and-publications/publications/monument-class-and-scope-notes/)and the [UK Open Data here](https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/46240fa5-db15-469e-b1c8-0460504b951c/northern-ireland-sites-and-monuments-record). For the tooling, I used QGIS and PowerQuery (Excel).
You can also see my interactive map of rock art sites with the site descriptions here too: [https://www.danielkirkpatrick.co.uk/irish-history/rock-art-ireland/](https://www.danielkirkpatrick.co.uk/irish-history/rock-art-ireland/)