Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Termons, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Termons
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.83971, -10.15886
- SMR number
- KE098-115----
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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
On the lower SE side of Knag hill, overlooking Lough Currane to S, is a stone slab measuring 1.12m x .68m x .25m. It was uncovered in the late 1980s about 100m S of its present position at a depth of approximately four feet (1.2m) below ground level (local information). The decorated surface, which features some scratches made by the earth-moving machine on discovery, carries two cup-and-rings, a cup-and-penannular ring, seven cupmarks and a forked groove.
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. 372. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 28 July 2013
In small, improved pasture field adjacent to private dwelling house. Access not gained. According to O’Sullivan & Sheehan (1996, 107-8), ‘On the lower SE side of Knag hill, overlooking Lough Currane to S, is a stone slab measuring 1.12m x .68m x .25m. It was uncovered in the late 1980s about 100m S of its present position at a depth of approximately four feet (1.2m) below ground level (local information). The decorated surface, which features some scratches made by the earth-moving machine on discovery, carries two cup-and-rings, a cup-and-penannular ring, seven cupmarks and a forked groove’. According to the landowner, this stone was uncovered when digging for a septic tank (ibid).
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 6 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.