What is recorded here

Rock art in Derreeny marks a small SW-facing sandstone ledge above the Kealduff River valley, where cupmarks and rings still stand out across its western edge. The main design joins one cup to two rings, while smaller cup-and-ring marks cluster beside it and faint pickmarks trace the boundary of the decorated surface. Whoever worked that stone chose a narrow ledge where water, sky and valley could be seen at once, making the marks less like decoration and more like a claim laid across the land.

In upland heath pasture, on a SW-facing slope (146m OD), overlooking Kealduff River valley to S; tributary stream c. 40-50m to W and curving around, c. 25m S. A slightly rough and fractured sandstone rock outcrop (dims. 0.80m NE-SW; 0.50m NW-SE; max. H 0.50m) which has a sub-rectangular decorated surface (dims. 0.26m NE-SW; 0.23m NW-SE) with a NW-facing aspect. The rock art is very clear and concentrated across the western margins of the decorated surface. The main decoration consists of a cup-and-two ring motif (diam. 15cm) having a cupmark (diam. 4cm; D 5mm) and ring (Wth 1cm; D 4mm), located centrally on the W margin. Two cup-and-one ring motifs (dims. 6cm N-S; 7cm E-W) each having a cupmark (diam. 3cm; D 3mm) and ring (Wth 1cm; D 4mm) are adjacent to NE and S. There is a very faint cup-and-ring motif (diam. 13cm) having an oval cupmark (diam. 2.5cm x 4cm; D 3-4mm) and ring (Wth 1cm; D 2mm) adjacent. A cupmark (diam. 2cm; D 2mm) is adjacent to S of the southern cup-and-ring motif. There are pickmarks amongst the motifs and what appears to be a linear band of pickmarks defining the decorated surface to E. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 27 March 2017

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