What is recorded here
Rock art in Loch An Dúin, County Kerry, Ireland. Two further decorated rock surfaces are known nearby. Their precise location has not been recorded. The lake keeps more than one stone diary, but the diary pages refuse to show themselves.
In Cuppage (1986, 64), the description for rock art (KE035-076----) makes a reference to Finlay (1973, 17) who ‘notes that two further decorated rock surfaces are known in the immediate vicinity of the lake but their precise location has not been recorded. This reference does not form a description of the rock art or its precise location and is therefore too vague to pin point.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 7 July 2017
Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the rock art at Loch An Dúin may have held ritual or symbolic significance, possibly linked to landscape features or water-associated beliefs common in prehistoric Scotland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
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Church in Cill An UrdráinChurch · 1.6 mi
Maughanablagher CliffsCliff · 1.9 mi
An ChonairViewpoint · 2.4 mi
Séipéal Bhréanainn [Saint Brendan's Catholic Church]church/chapel · 2.8 mi
Drom BeachBeach / strand · 2.9 mi
Hillville WoodWood · 3.2 mi
Site of CastleCastle, unclassified · 3.3 mi
CarrignawaddraNamed rock · 3.5 mi