What is recorded here
Altashane and Cabadooey stand on elevated Donegal grassland, facing east with four cup marks cut into rock and a decorated standing stone eighteen metres west. The stones may have marked a boundary, a meeting place or a warning about the sea below. They still point east, unchanged since hands first shaped them.
Situated on elevated grassland with commanding views to the E. Standing stone (DG011-014---) decorated with cup and ring marks (DG011-014001-) located 18m to W. Rock outcrop the surface of which has been decorated with 4 cup marks.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 October 2015
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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