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Rock art in Carrowreagh OR Craignacally

Rock art

What is recorded here

Carrowreagh and Craignacally hold at least ten faint cupmarks and one rare keyhole carving on broad Donegal rock. The cups scatter across a smooth sheet while the ringed cup nearly vanished under weather. A person may have knelt there in rain or sunlight, pressing a marker into stone that time keeps erasing.
Described by Van Hoek as 'A few metres NE of DON 10E (DG003-006005-) is the first of a series of very large sheets of outcrop rock. This has a slight scarp to the SW and scattered over its smooth surface are at least ten cupmarks. On a horizontal part of the rock, there is also a cup with two complete rings and with two short parallel grooves extending from the outer ring ( forming a sort of keyhole shape). All the carvings are very faint, and the cup with two rings has almost weathered away' (Van Hoek 1988, 46). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 30 May 2010

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