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
- 52.01388, -10.00781
- SMR number
- KE071-137----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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; 'In a stream, by its north bank, a roughly triangular shaped boulder with an upper surface tapering to SW measuring c. 2m along its long axis NE/SW and 1m wide, on which is inscribed 8 isolated cupmarks (D 4cm), a cup-and-ring composition whereby 3 clearly defined cupmarks (D c. 4cm) are enclosed by a sub-oval ring (c. 30cm wide NW/SE x 18cm long). A further single cupmark (D 4cm) and 2 faint cupmarks are on the ring at SW. The groove forming the SW side of the ring continues past the ring diagonally to E to the edge of the boulder. Running parallel to this groove, 5 cm below at
SW, is another groove with 2 further cupmarks (D 4cm)'.
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.