Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Kealduff Upper, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kealduff Upper
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.01191, -10.00393
- SMR number
- KE071-034----
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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
This flat section of outcrop, measuring 3.1m x 1.6m, features a lightly pocked circular area at its N end and a haphazard grouping of pockmarks at SE.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 338. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 28 July 2013
In area of mountain heath (150m), with a concentration of rock outcrop and boulders, on a general NE-facing slope; Good views of Behy River valley NE->E. Not located. According to O’Sullivan & Sheehan (1996, 101), this ‘flat section of rock outcrop, measuring 3.1m x 1.6m, features a lightly pocked circular area at its N end and a haphazard grouping of pockmarks at SE’. The SMR file states that this is ‘a very smooth though stepped portion of rock outcrop whose surface bears only one motif at its N end’ which is ‘a surface pocked flat disc 23cm x 23cm’ and ‘50cm SE are a haphazard collection of 10 pockmarks, set close together’.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 5 July 2017
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.