What is recorded here

Rock art in Doire Fhionáin Beag holds four shallow cupmarks cut into a long pink boulder, their positions still clear beside two thin grooves that branch like a small river. The marks sit high above two ringforts, suggesting whoever made them watched the land below or marked a boundary people could see from a distance. Modern digger scars cross part of the stone, but the ancient cups remain distinct, small enough to touch and large enough to stop a person walking past.

At c.80m OD, in NE edge of modern field clearance cairn, a large sandstone boulder, pinkish excluding those parts scarred by numerous E/W running digger marks and having a greeny-grey colour with white at the edges. Its long axis NNE/SSW, the boulder slopes upwards to SSW, measuring 3.6m N/S, 1.5m E/W, 0.6m thick. The upper surface is largely flat except where it curves down to a level c. 20cm lower on its E side. The rock art is on the mid to W part of the upper surface and consists of four cupmarks and grooves c. 3cm wide. The cupmark 0.7m from the top end at SSW - D: 6 cm, d: 1cm. A second cupmark 12cm downslope to N, - D: 4cm, d: 0.75cm. A third cupmark 30cm to N, (D: 6cm, d: 1cm) and a fourth partial cupmark 13cm to E ( D: 6cm, d: 1cm). At N, a groove, 0.03m wide, runs SSE for 0.2m before splitting into two grooves which run 0.2m which terminate in cupmarks 3 and 4 respectively. Pitting and some incisions dispersed over upper surface with a further 10 pick-like marks on W face. On high ground, views downslope to E overlook two ringforts: KE106-062---- and KE106-063001-. At SSW, views extend beyond Lamb’s Head to the Beara Peninsula. Identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe (2018). Compiled by: Aoibheann Lambe Date of upload: 26 April 2018

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the rock art may have had ritual or territorial significance, though its specific meaning or use remains undetermined.

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