Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Kealduff Upper, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kealduff Upper
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.01183, -9.99337
- SMR number
- KE071-128----
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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
Rock art identified and described by Aoibheann Lambe as follows; 'In cutaway bog, an earthfast rock whose exposed surface measures approx 2m NW/SE, 1.2m NE/SW, inscribed on its SW facing side with rock art which includes a cup-and-3 ring motif (cup Diam: 4cm, outer ring Diam: 20cm) from whose central cupmark one radial groove extends (c. 0.2m) towards SE and another (c. 10cm) towards NE where it joins a natural crack'.
See attached photographs provided courtesy of Aoibheann Lambe
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Aoibheann Lambe
Date of upload: 7 October 2022
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.