Rock Art, SHANACASHEL

Rock Art in Ireland, dating from the Bronze Age

Two slabs lie at the S side of a field fence, beneath a dense growth of furze bushes, in rough boggy land on the S side of Knocknamorrive hill, E of the Caragh river. Cooke recorded a third stone at this location but this cannot now be located. (1)(KE072-017----) The decorated surface of this rectangular block, which measures 1.22m .4m .2m, is flat. The well-preserved motifs include two cup-and-rings, three cup-and-two rings and one cup-and-three rings. In each case the rings are penannular, and in two instances radial grooves extend from the cupmarks. There are, in addition, six simple cupmarks and a number of grooves, one of which extends along the centre of the slab for about half of its length. (2)(KE072-017001-) The decoration on this slab, which measures 1.3m .5m, is confined to one of its ends and is dominated by a cup-and-two penannular rings with a radial groove. This groove is intersected by a curved groove which joins a cup-and-ring and a cupmark with a short groove, enclosed in an arc. (3)(KE072-017002-) Cooke described this stone as roughly rectangular, 19 inches by 15 inches (.48m .38m), and featuring a cup-and-ring linked to a subrectangular grid pattern (1906, 11). 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. 359. In certain inst

Period:
Bronze Age

Coordinates:
52.01°N, 9.85°W

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