What is recorded here

Rock art in Derrynablaha stands just beyond a Kerry roadside fence, a broad shallow stone tilted slightly south where one picked line still cuts across the grain. The rest has nearly dissolved into weather and memory, leaving only a ghost of marking beneath the skin of the rock. Whoever made it worked on a surface now worn almost smooth, and the line remains because it entered the stone rather than sitting on it.

A prominent largely level-surfaced rock (c. 2m E/W x 1.5m N/S, H: c. 0.6m) adjacent to the road at W, located just beyond the fence, the upper surface of which slopes slightly to S and is inscribed with very faint rock art which includes a weathered picked line, clearly traceable for some 0.5m, running NE/SW across its surface. Other markings on the surface are extremely weathered and faint. Compiled by: Aoibheann Lambe Date of upload/revision: 13 May 2019

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the rock art may have held symbolic or ritual significance, possibly linked to territorial markers or spiritual beliefs. No specific folklore is recorded for this site.

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