What is recorded here

Aoibheann Lambe identified the rock art in 2014 on a gentle NE-facing slope overlooking Behy River valley. A small fractured sandstone block carries a cup-and-one ring motif, three cupmarks and scattered pickmarks across its decorated surface. The mark sits beside a bog trackway, disused reservoir and watercourse draining from Coomnacronia Lake, as if someone had set a tiny instrument of observation among the living water and old paths.

This monument was initially identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe in 2014. In mountain heath, on a gentle NE-facing slope (175m OD), overlooking Behy River valley to NE; overlooked by mountains SE->W->NE. Bog trackway is c. 7m to SE, a disused reservoir is c. 40m to NE and a watercourse (draining from Coomnacronia Lake) is located c. 50m to NW. A slightly rough and fractured sandstone rock (dims. 0.9m N-S; 0.50m E-W; max. H 0.60m at ENE), which has an irregular-shaped decorated surface (dims. 0.55m N-S; 0.40m E-W) with a SW-facing aspect. Well-defined rock art consisting of a cup-and-one ring motif (dims. 9cm N-S; 12cm E-W) located centrally and having a cupmark (diam. 4cm; D 4mm) and ring comprised of pickmarks (each diam. 4-5mm; D 2-3mm). Three cupmarks (diam. 2cm; D 4-5mm) one of which is located upon the picked ring of the cup-and-one ring motif, at NE. Small pickmarks (diam. 4-5mm; D 2-3mm) and slightly larger pickmarks (diam. 1cm; D 4-5mm) across decorated surface, having no discernible pattern. Shallow, open grassed-in land drain (long-axis NE-SW) is c. 0.75m to W and old turf banks/turfcutting areas to S. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 March 2017

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this rock art may have had ritual or territorial significance, possibly linked to landscape features such as the river valley and surrounding mountains. Its meaning remains undeciphered, but such art often reflected spiritual beliefs or social identity.

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