What is recorded here

Three stones in Gowlane East bear cup-and-ring marks, yet their exact location has been lost. Graves drew their motifs in 1877 after Hitchcock found them, revealing fragments of a larger forgotten monument. The rocks may still lie buried under brambles or hidden beside a field, waiting for someone to remember the shape they once formed.

Three stones bearing rock art were discovered by Hitchcock in the townland of Gowlane, and drawings of each were published by Graves (1877, 421-431) who noted that two (KE044-130----) appeared to be fragments of a larger monument. Du Noyer (Antiquarian Sketches, vol.1) identified the townland as Gowlane East, but the precise location of the stones has not been established. According to the Graves drawings (1877, 426 Fig. VIII), this is the third of three stones and is a subrectangular boulder bearing a cup-and-three-ring motif, two cup-and-ring motifs and a cupmark. The first and second stones (KE044-130----) described by Graves (ibid), had similar motifs. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 7 July 2017

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