What is recorded here

Canearagh holds cupmarks and ringed motifs on exposed rock beside a pasture field, facing Teeromoyle Mountain and Drung Hill. Aoibheann Lambe first identified the art in 2016, revealing marks that may have been made long before written memory. The stones sit in open daylight, waiting for hands to imagine the people who shaped them.

This monument was initially identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe in 2016. In pasture field (186m OD), with abundant rock outcrop and boulders, on a gentle NW-facing slope; Best views SW->NW toward Teeromoyle Mountain and Drung Hill. A partial cup-and-two-ring motif (overall dims. 12cm x 9cm; ring Wth 1cm; D 3cm; cup diam. 1.5cm; D 2mm) which is complete S->W->NNE, is located on W side of decorated surface. A cup-and-two-ring motif (overall dims. 26cm; ring Wth 1.5cm; D 2-3cm; cup diam. 5cm; D 10mm) is c. 56cm to NE; obscured across N arc by stone wall field boundary; A natural fracture (long-axis E-W) extends from cupmark at E. Thirteen cupmarks (range diam. 1.5-3cm; D 4-5mm) to centre and S of decorated surface. Various pickmarks across S and E areas of decorated surface. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 5 July 2017

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the rock art in Canearagh may represent symbolic or ritual markings associated with early farming communities or spiritual practices. Its location within a pastoral landscape suggests possible connections to land use, territorial markers, or ceremonial activity.

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