Rock Art, KEALDUFF UPPER

Rock Art in Ireland, dating from the Bronze Age

This rectangular section of rock outcrop, whose decorated surface rises upwards to E, measures 2.8m x 1.2m. One weathered motif occurs at the E end and consists of a cup-and-two rings with a short curving groove extending from the outermost ring; faint traces of a third ring survive. The motifs at the W end, recently relieved of their covering of peat, are extremely well-preserved. A short groove is executed close to a cup-and-three gapped rings with a radial line. Another cup-and-three rings features two radial grooves, one extending from the outer and the other from the innermost ring; the latter ring is bisected by a transverse groove. A cup-and-radial groove motif is enclosed by three gapped, spiralling rings near the SE limits of the exposed surface. Extending from the outermost of these rings is a long curving groove that terminates in a cupmark enclosed by an oval ring. Dispersed among the motifs are irregular patches of pocking and numerous individual pockmarks. See attached drawing of rock art taken from O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, Fig. 64 (a) 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. 333. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. In small field of rough pasture (141m OD), on an

Period:
Bronze Age

Coordinates:
52.01°N, 10.00°W

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