Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Killelton (corkaguiny By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killelton (corkaguiny By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.23362, -9.87709
- SMR number
- KE037-084----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
An irregularly-shaped boulder lying on the strand at the base of the low cliffs that border the S side of Tralee Bay. These cliffs are continually being eroded and the stone may have fallen to its present position from the land above. It measures 1.05m x .94m x a maximum of .35m thick. The upper surface is divided roughly in two, along its E-W axis, by a combination of a natural ridge and a pocked line. Above this to S are about 36 cup-marks varying in diameter from .02 to .09m. At the W edge of this concentration are 2 parallel oval cups and a 3rd less well-defined sub-oval depression. On the N portion of the stone the motifs are less densely distributed. They consist of at least 9 cup-marks and 2 parallel oval depressions from one of which a long groove extends W for .32m. This boulder has been relocated, see KE037-022---- for the present location.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 186. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 8 March 2016
This record is for the original location of the rock art found on the strand at the base of cliffs bordering the S side of Tralee bay.. A smooth and fractured sandstone (dims. 0.98m WSW-ENE; 0.94m NNW-SSE; max. H 0.40m) with an irregular shaped, flat decorated surface (dims. 0.98m WSW-ENE; 0.94m NNW-SSE). The decorated surface is divided into two distinct areas by a natural ridge and a pocked line. The motifs are clearly traceable and consist of approximately thirty eight cupmarks (diam. 3-8cm; D 3-9mm) concentrated to one side of the pocked line. The deepest cupmark (diam. 5.5cm; D 15mm) is located at the highest part of the decorated surface. Approximately nine cupmarks occur on the other side of the pocked line, along with two parallel oval depressions, one of which has a linear groove (L c. 0.3m) that extends to W. Moved in 1997 to its present location (KE037-022----), on a level grass-covered road margin of N86 Castlegregory-Tralee road at Camp.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 7 July 2017
Nearby in the register
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- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.