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Rock art

Letter West, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art, Letter West, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Letter West
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.01314, -10.01717
SMR number
KE071-002001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In mountain heath (198m OD), in an area of cutaway blanket bog, on a gentle NE-facing slope. Excellent view of Behy river valley to NE and overlooked by horseshoe of mountains enclosing SE->SW->N. A very rough and fractured sandstone (dims. 1.30m NE-SW; 0.45m NW-SE; max. H 0.12m at N) which is subrectangular in plan. It is very low in profile and situated within a broad turf-bank (long-axis NE-SW), whereby it is only partially exposed, being covered by peat E->S->W. The decorated surface (dims. 0.30m NE-SW; 0.10m NW-SE) is generally level with a slight S-facing aspect. The motifs are weathered yet traceable, consisting of a large cupmark (diam. 7cm; D 5mm) and a smaller cupmark (diam. 5cm; D 11mm), c. 0.22m to SW; possibly deepened by weathering. There may be additional motifs under the sod. Rock art (KE071-002----) is c. 2.5m to NW.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 18 July 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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