Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Letter West, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letter West
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.01204, -10.01575
- SMR number
- KE071-082001-
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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 monument was initially identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe in 2014. In area of cutaway bog, on a gentle NE-facing slope (205m), c. 11m to S of rock art site (KE071-082----); turf bank c. 4m to NW. A very rough and fractured, sandstone rock (dims. 2.00m NE-SW; 1.00m NW-SE; max. H 0.20m), which has a flat, irregular shaped decorated surface (dims. 0.70m NE-SW; 0.45m NW-SE). Almost half of this rock is covered by thick peat and the motifs that are visible are extremely weathered. The motifs are concentrated upon the exposed NE-half of decorated surface and consist of five cupmarks. Two cupmarks (diam. 4cm; D 5-6mm) are joined together by a curvilinear groove (L 9cm; Wth 1cm; D 3-4mm) and there is a smaller cupmark (diam. 2.5cm; D 3mm) located between these. A curvilinear groove encloses this set of motifs E->S->W. A large cupmark (diam. 10cm; D 3-4mm) is located to N and a second similar sized cupmark to W, is partially covered by peat. Two cup-and-one ring motifs (diam. 7-9cm) having a cupmark (diam. 3.5-4cm; D 4mm) and ring (Wth 1cm; D 2-3mm) are located centrally and to E. A cup-and-ring motif (diam. 22cm) is defined by a square cup (dims. L 9cm; D 4mm) with rounded corners and a ring (Wth 1.5-2cm; D 2mm).
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 3 March 2017
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.