What is recorded here

Carrowreagh and Craignacally hold twelve cupmarks along a smooth grassland outcrop, eight of them wide and shallow enough that rain may have nearly erased them. The westernmost disc-cup still hints at a broken ring, while the eastern end preserves a small cup inside a larger ring on a low boss. Someone shaped stone that grass and weather keep taking back, forcing every viewer to complete what time has blurred.

Identified by Van Hoek in 1987 and described as 'A few metres NNW of DON 6 (DG003-016----) is a long and smooth outcrop in grassland. It has some interesting features: from its W end, where it slopes 9 degrees ESE, to its E end, where it slopes 16 degrees NE, is a row of 12 cupmarks. Three of these are normally pocked cupmarks, but eight consist of very shallow and large disc-cups (cf. DON 13 and 28), some of which have been almost completely worn off. The westernmost disc-cup might have a partial large ring. At the extreme E end is another unusual feature, consisting of a ring which encloses a small cupmark on a low boss' (Van Hoek 1987, 28). Van Hoek, M.A. M. (1987) 'The prehistoric rock art of County Donegal (part 1)' UJA vol. 50, 23-46. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 30 May 2010

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