What is recorded here

An Choill Mhór holds two small cupmarks on smooth sandstone, set eighty metres from another rock art site and facing the wide sweep of Brandon Bay. The markers sit partly hidden beneath white lichen on a level pasture ledge, small enough to be overlooked yet clear enough to have been made deliberately. They may have marked a boundary, a meeting place or a remembered event, while people moved through rough grass beneath Slievanea. The sea and mountains still frame the stones, keeping the purpose absent but the shape alive.

In rough pasture (94m OD), on a generally level area of an otherwise NW-facing slope. Excellent views W->N->NE of Brandon Mountain range, Brandon Bay and Maharee Islands and Lough Adoon waterfall to SSE; overlooked by higher ground of Slievanea mountain to SW. A smooth and unfractured sandstone rock outcrop which is irregular in plan (dims. 0.96m E-W; 0.54m N-S); stone is higher (H 0.25m) at NW side and flush with ground level at SE side. It has a linear decorated surface (dims. 0.2m E-W; 0.1m N-S) with a slight SSE-facing tilt and bears two motifs which are c. 6cm apart. A cupmark (diam. 5.5cm; D 13mm) is to W side of decorated surface and a second cupmark (diam. 5cm; D 10mm) is to E side of decorated surface; both motifs are partially obscured by white lichens. Rock art (KE035-073038-) is c. 80m to E. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 17 July 2017

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this rock art may have held ritual or territorial significance, possibly linked to landscape features such as Brandon Mountain or Lough Adoon. No specific folklore is recorded for the site.

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