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Rock art in An Lóthar

Rock art

What is recorded here

An Lóthar in County Kerry holds a weathered cup-and-ring on loose sandstone, buried beneath grass and forgotten time. The stone sits midway along a scattered row of boulders, trapped between an old drystone wall and a modern field boundary. Someone cut that marker long before roads or records existed, perhaps directing livestock, marking a meeting place or warning a traveller. Rain has since rubbed the edge smooth, but the shape still resists erasure.
Midway along an ENE/WSW 17m long distribution of ex-situ boulders, set down between a drystone wall and a modern field boundary, a loose sandstone boulder whose upper surface is inscribed with very weathered and faintly discernible rock art which consists of a cup-and-ring motif, a cupmark partially enclosed by picking and other faint motifs. Compiled by: Aoibheann Lambe Date of upload: 5 September 2018

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