What is recorded here

Aoibheann Lambe identified the site in 2016, pulling a forgotten line of marks out of the bog. A shallow row of tiny pickmarks cuts across smooth sandstone, disappearing beneath peat as if the hand that made it simply stopped mid-thought. The valley stretches below, unchanged, while the marks fade back into the mountain’s skin.

This monument was initially identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe in 2016. In mountain heath and blanket bog, on a NE-facing slope (176m OD), overlooking Behy River valley to NE and overlooked by mountains SE->W->NE. A smooth and fractured sandstone rock outcrop (dims. 1.00m NE-SW; 0.54m NW-SE; max. H 0.15m) with a linear decorated surface (dims. 0.44m NW-SE; 0.03m NE-SW) on W-side of rock, which has a slight SW-facing aspect. Rock art is very weathered and faint consisting of a linear row (long-axis NW-SE) (L 41cm NW-SE; Wth 1cm NE-SW; D 2mm) of pickmarks (diam. 4-5mm) which appears to start at the SE-end and continues under the peat to NW. 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 held ritual or territorial significance, possibly linked to landscape features such as the river valley and mountain views. Its meaning remains undeciphered, but such art often reflects symbolic or spiritual connections to the environment.

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