What is recorded here
Drumirril 8 remains a quiet rock art panel in County Monaghan, recorded in Blaze O' Connor's inventory of inscribed landscapes. It is the kind of place where people may have marked territory, memory or ceremony long before written records, leaving behind a surface still capable of startling attention.
'Drumirril 8' in Blaze O' Connor's 'Inventory of Rock Art panels' - see O' Connor B. 2006, 268, 'Inscribed Landscapes contextualising prehistoric rock art in Ireland'. Unpublished PHD thesis, University College Dublin.
Date of upload: 23 August 2010
Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the rock art at Drumirril may have held ritual or symbolic significance, possibly linked to territorial markers, spiritual beliefs, or ancestral memory. Interpretations remain speculative due to limited contextual information.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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