Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Ballygamboon Upper, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygamboon Upper
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19288, -9.68000
- SMR number
- KE047-013002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In pasture (30m OD), on a SW-facing slope, within interior of ringfort (KE047-013----); Frequent growth of wild Iris within interior. No visible surface trace. An ITA Survey (1942) briefly describes the ringfort and states, ‘in the centre lies a large stone bearing ring markings’. Relatively small earthfast boulder in bank at SE, however no rock art is obvious. The rock art site may have sunken into ground and become covered with earthen and organic debris over time.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 6 July 2017
References
Irish Tourist Association. Surveys undertaken in the 1940s for the Irish Tourist Association (now Fáilte Ireland) relating to ‘Natural features, antiquities, historic associations etc.' Extracts from these surveys were copied into the Topographical files of the Office of Public Works and these have been incorporated into the Sites and Monuments Record files (National Monuments Service).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.