Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Derreenanaryagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreenanaryagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.98067, -9.87982
- SMR number
- KE072-033----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Panel of rock art identified and described by Aoibheann Lambe as follows; 'According to the landowner, the upper surface was revealed after a gorse fire decades ago. In rough poorly drained marshy pasture used for cattle grazing, the upper surfaces of a large erratic sandstone boulder and its smaller neighbour are inscribed with rock art, including cup-and-ring motifs, grooves and cupmarks'. Standing stone (KE072-008----) 140m to the ENE, second standing stone (KE072-009----) 295m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Aoibheann Lambe.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.