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
- 52.01202, -10.00306
- SMR number
- KE071-035----
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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 section of outcrop, sloping upwards to NE, is largely buried beneath peat. The decorative motifs on the exposed section at S cover an area of 1.6m x 2m. There are two cup-and-two rings with radial grooves, and three cupmarks. One of the latter is disposed within a grooved arc, and one of the cup-and-two rings has a second groove curving from the outer ring and terminating in a cupmark. Elsewhere on the decorated surface is a long meandering groove which terminates in an oval-shaped pocked area with some further grooves and patches of pocking.
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. 339. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 28 July 2013
In well-grazed mountain heath (151m OD), with a concentration of rock outcrop and boulders, on a general NE-facing slope; Good views of River Behy valley NE->E. Not Located. According to O’Sullivan & Sheehan (1996, 101), this ‘section of rock outcrop, sloping upwards to NE, is buried beneath peat.’ The SMR file states that ‘the rock art is located on the S portion of a very large section of rock outcrop. This portion slopes gently down to the S and has a relatively smooth surface.’ Possibly assigned duplicate number KE071-090----, which is c. 25m to N.
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.