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
- 52.01332, -10.01692
- SMR number
- KE071-141----
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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 11 June 2017 by Aoibheann Lambe and Ken Williams. Described by Aoibheann Lambe as an; 'upright loose boulder, 0.4m high, roughly triangular in cross section, may have been broken off a bigger rock in the course of turf cutting. Its inscribed trapezoid shaped face slopes steeply upwards 0.8m to NW and measures up to 0.4m across at its base. The decoration consists of pock marked grooves, the pocking being more distinct on its right side. The meandering grooves join to form an irregularly shaped sub-rectangle'.
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.