What is recorded here

Caherlehillan holds two shallow cupmarks on a fractured sandstone boulder, buried under mountain heath and exposed only when the wind strips the valley clear. The marks sit eighteen inches apart on a steep face, small enough to hide inside a palm but deep enough to resist forgetting. A person may have knelt there at dawn, pressing a tool into stone while the Ferta valley waited below, making a point so simple it still refuses explanation.

In mountain heath (164m OD), on a W-facing slope; Excellent views of River Ferta valley to SW. A slightly rough and fractured sandstone boulder (dims. 3.17m N-S; 2.28m E-W; max. H 0.82m at W) which is very weathered and has natural dimpling. This boulder has a sub-rectangular decorated surface (dims. 1.03m NW-SE; 0.20m NE-SW) with a steep NW-facing aspect. The upper SE-half of stone surface has predominant lichen cover. The motifs are weathered and consist of a cupmark (diam. 7cm; D 15mm) in NE corner and a cupmark (diam. 6cm; D 15mm) in centre of stone surface, c. 89cm to SW. There is a small ‘footstep’ to get up onto this boulder, at the E end of the N side. Field boundary (long axis NE-SW) is c. 4.5m to W. Monument identified as a rock art site by A. Lambe (2014). Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 31 May 2017

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this rock art may have had ritual or territorial significance, possibly linked to landscape features such as the River Ferta valley. No specific folklore is recorded for the site.

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