Tag: Kinard East

Cup-and-Ring Stone (destroyed):  OS Grid Reference – V 4967 9923

Archaeology & History

In Rev. Orpen’s (1908) description of the impressive Kinard East (1) carving, before leaving he told that “about 20 yards to the north of this…stone may be seen a single cup and circle on the corner of a rock.”  Judith Cuppage (1986) reported that this stone “has apparently been broken up for use as road-metal.”  Gone!

References:

1. Cuppage, Judith, Archaeological Survey of the Dingle Peninsula, Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne: Ballyferriter 1986.
2. Finlay, F., Rock Art of Cork and Kerry, unpublished MA thesis 1973.
3. Orpen, R., “Antiquities near Lispole, Co. Kerry,” in Kerry Archaeological Magazine, volume 1,  1908.

© Paul Bennett, The Northern Antiquarian