What is recorded here

Burren in County Cavan is a large boulder carrying two closely set rows of cup-marks. That is all the saved fact gives back: a stone, a side, and repeated marks made by someone who stood close enough to feel the edge of the tool. The boulder may have marked a path, a boundary, a prayer or a game. It still refuses to explain itself, which is why the cups keep appearing in the mind long after the walk ends.

A large boulder on the side of which are carved two closely-set rows of cup-marks (pers. comm. G. Burns and J. Nolan). (Burns and Nolan 2007) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 16 November 2012

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the cup-marked boulder is associated with ritual or symbolic practices common in prehistoric Ireland. Such rock art may have had ceremonial, astronomical, or territorial significance, though its specific meaning remains undetermined.

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