What is recorded here

Kealduff Upper holds four cupmarks cut into a smooth sandstone boulder, facing south above the Behy valley. They sit twenty metres from another rock art site, suggesting a place where marking repeated rather than a single accidental strike. The valley view and nearby stones may have helped people remember a route, a boundary or a story during long exposure to the sky.

In mountain heath (178m OD), amongst rock scatter, on a gentle NE-facing slope. Good views of Behy river valley to NE with Seefin and Droum Mountains in background. A smooth and fractured sandstone boulder (dims. 1m N-S; 0.65m E-W; H 0.25m at W) which is subrectangular in plan. It has an irregular-shaped decorated surface (dims. 0.6m N-S; 0.45m E-W) with a S-facing aspect. The motifs consist of four cupmarks which are in reasonably good condition and easily recognisable despite numerous natural solution and pockmarks upon surface. Two of the cupmarks (max. dims. 7 x 8cm; D 6mm) are large and the remaining two cupmarks (diam. 4cm; D 8mm) are slightly smaller. Rock art (KE071-175----) is c. 20m to SE. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 26 January 2018

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this rock art may have had ritual or territorial significance, possibly linked to landscape features visible from the site. No specific folklore is recorded for this location.

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