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
- 52.01601, -10.01245
- SMR number
- KE071-139----
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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
Identified and described by Aoibheann Lambe as an; 'Earthfast boulder, triangular in plan, its SW sloping surface (1m wide, 1.4 long) is inscribed with a cup-and-two rings (D: cup 6cm; outer ring 20cm) with radial line running upslope from the cupmark as far as the outer ring and a two-cups-and ring motif (D: cup on crack 2.5cm; on the right, an off-centre larger cup 5.5cm; ring 14cm) with radial line (1cm long extending from the larger cup ‘at 4 o’clock’ to the ring). To the left and above these two motifs are 3 cupmarks (D: 5cm). At the base of the panel, as well as some pocking, a narrow band of the rock’s surface is enclosed by 2 narrow pocked horizontal grooves (width c. 0.5cm, length c. 14cm). Immediately to NW is rock art panel'.
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.