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Rock art

Letter West, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art, Letter West, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Letter West
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.01406, -10.01031
SMR number
KE071-173----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In mountain heath and cutaway bog (163m OD), on a gentle NE-facing slope, c. 2.8m to ENE of rock art (KE071-172----); Pre-bog field wall is c. 3.5m to N. Good views of Behy river valley to NE with Seefin and Droum Mountains in background. A slightly rough and fractured, sandstone rock outcrop (dims. 2.05m NNE-SSW; 1.7m ESE-WNW; H 0.65m at SE) which is roughly triangular in plan. It has a subrectangular-shaped decorated surface (dims. 0.95m NNE-SSW; 0.7m ESE-WNW) with motifs upon the NW-facing aspect and top of rock. The motifs are faint and weathered, yet traceable. Most of the decorative elements are located upon the NW-facing aspect and consist of a picked linear groove (L 0.37m; Wth 1.5cm; D 2-3mm) across centre of decorated surface with off-shoots (also picked) to a cupmark (diam. 3cm; D 4mm) at top, middle and base; Two additional cupmarks (4.5cm; D 8mm) directly to E of uppermost and together the five total cupmarks form a right-angled arrangement in plan. A sixth cupmark (diam. 4.5cm; D 8mm) is upon top of stone. A dense cluster of faint pickmarks adjacent lower side of linear groove, to S. Other random pickmarks toward N area of stone.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 26 January 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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