TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Rock art

Doire Fhionáin Beag, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Rock art, Doire Fhionáin Beag, 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
Doire Fhionáin Beag
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
51.76964, -10.11914
SMR number
KE106-155----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

At c.80m OD, in NE edge of modern field clearance cairn, a large sandstone boulder, pinkish excluding those parts scarred by numerous E/W running digger marks and having a greeny-grey colour with white at the edges. Its long axis NNE/SSW, the boulder slopes upwards to SSW, measuring 3.6m N/S, 1.5m E/W, 0.6m thick. The upper surface is largely flat except where it curves down to a level c. 20cm lower on its E side. The rock art is on the mid to W part of the upper surface and consists of four cupmarks and grooves c. 3cm wide. The cupmark 0.7m from the top end at SSW - D: 6 cm, d: 1cm. A second cupmark 12cm downslope to N, - D: 4cm, d: 0.75cm. A third cupmark 30cm to N, (D: 6cm, d: 1cm) and a fourth partial cupmark 13cm to E ( D: 6cm, d: 1cm). At N, a groove, 0.03m wide, runs SSE for 0.2m before splitting into two grooves which run 0.2m which terminate in cupmarks 3 and 4 respectively. Pitting and some incisions dispersed over upper surface with a further 10 pick-like marks on W face. On high ground, views downslope to E overlook two ringforts: KE106-062---- and KE106-063001-. At SSW, views extend beyond Lamb’s Head to the Beara Peninsula. Identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe (2018).

Compiled by: Aoibheann Lambe

Date of upload: 26 April 2018

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Rock art in Kerry All County Kerry records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map