Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Doire Fhionáin Beag, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire Fhionáin Beag
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.77054, -10.12021
- SMR number
- KE106-156----
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
Large boulder, 100m OD, on grough round sloping upwards to N, 35m E of N70 at E edge of modern field clearance cairn. Partly overlain by earth at NW, it measures c. 3m SE/NW, 1.2m wide and up to 1m high. 6 slightly irregularly shaped cupmarks are clustered at NE end of upper surface - 3 in a row and a further 3 in an arc. Row of cupmarks from N end: D: 6cm, d: 1cm; D: 4cm d: 0.5cm; D: 3cm N/S x 4 E/W, d: 0.5cm. Arc of cupmarks from N end: D: 4cm N/S x 5cm E/W; D: 4cm N/S x 5cm E/W; D: 4cm. Views at S towards 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.