What is recorded here

Rock art in Coomasaharn is a hidden rectangular outcrop in County Kerry, Ireland, bearing faint cupmarks, grooves and a penannular circle that may have marked territory, ritual or memory before furze and moss claimed the stone. People may have knelt beside it in rain or sunlight, reading its lines as readily as breath because the marks still invite attention even when they resist finding. What is lost is not meaning but witness; the rock remains patient while human life comes and goes around it.

The even upper surface of this rectangular area of rock outcrop slopes gently upwards towards NW. It measures 2.3m x 1.4m, and its longer axis lies NE-SW. The motifs on the stone are faint, and a furze bush obscures its SE end. A complex of grooves includes a cupmark, a meandering groove delinates a triangular area with a cupmark, and a third cupmark, with a radial line, is contained within a penannular circle. Three simple cupmarks also occur on the stone. 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. 279. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013 In rushy pasture field, on a SE-facing slope (c. 168m OD). Not located. The rock art was not located at grid reference provided or readily visible in the vicinity. Dense area of furze in field to NE, where it was not possible to see all of the rocks in their entirety; other rocks obscured by mosses and lichens. Large rectangular stones in this general area, but none as described by others. According to O’Sullivan & Sheehan (1996, 85; Entry 279), this is a rectangular area of rock outcrop (dims. 2.3m x 1.4m; long-axis NE-SW) with a SE-facing aspect and obscured by vegetation at SE-end. The motifs are faint, comprising of three individual cupmarks, a complex of grooves incorporating another cupmark, a meandering groove which delineates a triangular area with a cupmark and another cupmark with a radial line is enclosed by a penannular circle (ibid). Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 March 2017

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