Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Canearagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canearagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.00947, -9.96178
- SMR number
- KE071-096----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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 2016. In pasture field (186m OD), with abundant rock outcrop and boulders, on a gentle NW-facing slope; Best views SW->NW toward Teeromoyle Mountain and Drung Hill. A partial cup-and-two-ring motif (overall dims. 12cm x 9cm; ring Wth 1cm; D 3cm; cup diam. 1.5cm; D 2mm) which is complete S->W->NNE, is located on W side of decorated surface. A cup-and-two-ring motif (overall dims. 26cm; ring Wth 1.5cm; D 2-3cm; cup diam. 5cm; D 10mm) is c. 56cm to NE; obscured across N arc by stone wall field boundary; A natural fracture (long-axis E-W) extends from cupmark at E. Thirteen cupmarks (range diam. 1.5-3cm; D 4-5mm) to centre and S of decorated surface. Various pickmarks across S and E areas of decorated surface.
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.