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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
First-edition OS map
Not Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not Indicated
Coordinates
52.01459, -10.01457
SMR number
KE071-087----

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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

This monument was initially identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe in 2014.  In an area of cutaway bog and mountain heath, on a gentle NE-facing slope (176m OD), overlooking Behy River valley to NE and overlooked by mountains SE->W->NE. Turf banks located to S, W and N, a disused turf bank is c. 3.5m to NW and a bog trackway is c. 17m to NNW. A slightly rough and fractured, sandstone rock outcrop (dims. 2.20m NE-SW; 2.35m NW-SE; max. H 0.20m), having a flat decorated surface (dims. 0.50m NE-SW; 0.40m NW-SE). Irregular-shaped decorated surface (dims. 0.50m NE-SW; 0.40m NW-SE) which is generally flat. Rock art is very weathered and faint consisting of a sub-oval ring of pickmarks (dims. 0.48m E-W; 0.34m N-S) off-centre to W. This ring (Wth 2-3cm) of pickmarks (diam. 7-9mm; D 3mm) narrows to E-side (dims. 0.2m N-S) and a single pickmark is located within the interior, off-centre to W. Natural fracture (long axis c. E-W) is located centrally across the stone surface, to N.

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.

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