What is recorded here

Kealduff Upper in County Kerry holds cup-and-rings, cupmarks, mini-cupmarks, grooves and a keyhole motif on rock beside cutaway bog. Peat still fills some cups, as if the land forgot to finish covering the work. The stones sit half-exposed, marking a time when people made symbols bold enough to survive being buried.

Rock art identified and described by Aoibheann Lambe as; 'in cutaway bog, partly overlain with peat, there is still peat in some of the cups. The upper surface is inscribed with cup-and-rings, cupmarks, mini-cupmarks, grooves and a keyhole motif'. See attached photographs provided courtesy of Aoibheann Lambe Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Aoibheann Lambe Date of upload: 7 October 2022

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the rock art at Kealduff Upper may have held ritual or symbolic significance, possibly linked to water or land fertility, as suggested by its location in a peatland environment. Cup-and-ring motifs are commonly associated with ceremonial or territorial markers in prehistoric Britain and Ireland.

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