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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
51.77054, -10.12021
SMR number
KE106-156----

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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

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.

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