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Rock art in Drumirril

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Drumirril 28 is a rock art panel in County Monaghan, Ireland, listed in Blaze O' Connor's inventory. It belongs to the prehistoric rock art tradition of Ireland, where people marked landscapes before written records. The stones may have guided memory, ritual or boundary, though no human trace remains beside them.
'Drumirril 28' in Blaze O' Connor's 'Inventory of Rock Art panels' - see O' Connor B. 2006, 270, '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 Unpublished PHD thesis, University College Dublin.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, celestial observations, or early religious practices. Specific meaning or folklore associated with the site has not been recorded.

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