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Rock art

Gortbrack, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art, Gortbrack, 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
Gortbrack
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.89798, -9.78769
SMR number
KE091-098----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

Located in low-lying land just N of the confluence of the Blackwater and Kealduff rivers, this slab measures .9m x .65m x .35m high. It now lies outside a farmhouse, but was originally located some 300m further N. It is decorated with a cupmark and a cup-and-two rings with a radial line.

The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 328. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 28 July 2013

This is an ex-situ rock art stone, having been moved from a nearby field to a private dwelling plot. Currently located on a grassy margin and defining NE side of driveway to private dwelling house (93m OD). A smooth and fractured sandstone boulder (dims. 0.65m NE-SW; 0.83m NW-SE; max. H 0.33m) having a flat, subrectangular decorated surface (dims. 0.50m N-S; 0.50m E-W). The motifs consist of a cup-and-ring motif (overall diam. 12cm; ring Wth 1-1.5cm; D 1-2mm; cup diam. 6cm; D 10mm) located at SW edge of stone. The ring is extremely faint and is incomplete, where it abuts edge of stone. A cup-and-two-ring motif (overall diam. 17cm; ring Wth 1-2cm; D 4mm; cup diam. 7cm; D 18mm) is 11m to E; A short groove (L 7cm; Wth 1.5cm; D 4mm) extends from cupmark at SW. A post and wire fence is adjacent to N and an undecorated boulder is adjacent to NW.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 6 July 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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