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
- 52.01248, -10.00987
- SMR number
- KE071-136----
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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
Rock art identified and described by Aoibheann Lambe as; 'Low-lying sandstone outcropping measuring c. 4m NS x 2m EW, narrowing at NE, generally lightly lichen encrusted, its irregular E facing surface is inscribed with a cupmark and two cup-and-rings. A cup-and-ring (D: cupmark 4cm, ring 10cm) occurring midway along the length of the outcrop and 65cm in from the W side, has a cupmark (D: 4cm) c. 20cm to SW and the other cup-and-ring (D: cupmark 3cm, ring 7cm) is 45cm to NE'. Duplicate site with KE071-179----
See attached photographs 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.