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
- 52.01421, -10.01340
- SMR number
- KE071-097----
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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 mountain heath and blanket bog, on a NE-facing slope (174m OD), overlooking Behy River valley to NE and overlooked by mountains SE->W->NE. Loose stones and rock outcrop exposed across this area due to turf cutting and disused turf banks to NW and SE. A slightly rough and fractured, low profile, sandstone rock outcrop (dims. 0.50m N-S; 0.70m E-W; max. H 0.10m) having a triangular decorated surface (dims. 0.33m NE-SW; 0.15m NW-SE) which has an S-facing aspect. Rock art is very weathered and faint consisting of a cup-and-one ring motif (diam. 15cm) having a cupmark (diam. 7cm; D 11mm) and a ring (Wth 2.0cm; D 5mm), at S margin of stone; A tuft of green moss to S may obscure other potential motifs. Possible cupmark (diam. 2cm; D 5mm) is 12cm to SW. There are three parallel milky quartz veins (long-axis NW-SE) upon this aspect with one flanking either side of the cup-and-one ring motif and a third is further to E.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 3 March 2017
Nearby in the register
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.