What is recorded here
Carrowreagh and Craignacally hold at least ten faint cupmarks and one rare keyhole carving on broad Donegal rock. The cups scatter across a smooth sheet while the ringed cup nearly vanished under weather. A person may have knelt there in rain or sunlight, pressing a marker into stone that time keeps erasing.
Described by Van Hoek as 'A few metres NE of DON 10E (DG003-006005-) is the first of a series of very large sheets of outcrop rock. This has a slight scarp to the SW and scattered over its smooth surface are at least ten cupmarks. On a horizontal part of the rock, there is also a cup with two complete rings and with two short parallel grooves extending from the outer ring ( forming a sort of keyhole shape). All the carvings are very faint, and the cup with two rings has almost weathered away' (Van Hoek 1988, 46).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 30 May 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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