A together with the presence of the wire rope abnormality can be accurately inspected, after inspection of the wire rope, to provide a wire rope inspection device portion having the abnormality can be easily determined. A wire rope inspection device 1 includes a speed measurement unit 30 that measures the movement speed of the wire rope 2, a rail portion 13 where the wire rope 2 has been passed, a slide portion which moves along the rail part 13, is supported by the slide portion, pressed against the groove of the wire rope 2 and the follower part 43 which moves along the groove by the movement of the wire rope 2, a position measuring unit 40 for measuring the position of the follower portion 43, the position measuring unit and the position of the follower part 43 which 40 were measured, and the moving speed of the wire rope 2 to the speed measuring section 30 measures, based on, and detects the shape of the groove, the shape of the detected groove of the wire rope 2 anomaly It includes the presence or absence and the control unit 50 determines, as the marking portion 60 of the control unit 50 is marked to identify the determined abnormal part and abnormal, the. .FIELD 1