What is recorded here

Aoibheann Lambe documented a triangular boulder in Letter West where deliberate marks still oppose time. Cups and rings cut across the sloping stone, accompanied by radial lines and narrow grooves that suggest human hands shaped the rock rather than weather alone. The precision of the marks implies someone sat beside this boulder, studied its angle, and placed symbols where they could be seen. That much is written in the stone itself.

Identified and described by Aoibheann Lambe as an; 'Earthfast boulder, triangular in plan, its SW sloping surface (1m wide, 1.4 long) is inscribed with a cup-and-two rings (D: cup 6cm; outer ring 20cm) with radial line running upslope from the cupmark as far as the outer ring and a two-cups-and ring motif (D: cup on crack 2.5cm; on the right, an off-centre larger cup 5.5cm; ring 14cm) with radial line (1cm long extending from the larger cup ‘at 4 o’clock’ to the ring). To the left and above these two motifs are 3 cupmarks (D: 5cm). At the base of the panel, as well as some pocking, a narrow band of the rock’s surface is enclosed by 2 narrow pocked horizontal grooves (width c. 0.5cm, length c. 14cm). Immediately to NW is rock art panel'. See attached photographs courtesy of Aoibheann Lambe Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Aoibheann Lambe Date of upload: 7 October 2022

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the cup-and-two-rings motif is commonly associated with ritual or symbolic activity in prehistoric Britain and Ireland. Such markings may have had ceremonial, astronomical, or territorial significance, though their exact meaning remains uncertain.

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