What is recorded here

Six shallow cupmarks cluster on a large boulder above Doire Fhionáin Beag, three in a row and three in an arc, facing south toward the Beara Peninsula. The stones sit on a sloping grough round, partly buried at one edge, as if the land has been slowly swallowing the mark rather than erasing it. Whoever cut those small wells may have watched weather roll across that horizon, mapping moments or memories into rock. The boulder still holds them, steady while mountains and seasons turn.

Large boulder, 100m OD, on grough round sloping upwards to N, 35m E of N70 at E edge of modern field clearance cairn. Partly overlain by earth at NW, it measures c. 3m SE/NW, 1.2m wide and up to 1m high. 6 slightly irregularly shaped cupmarks are clustered at NE end of upper surface - 3 in a row and a further 3 in an arc. Row of cupmarks from N end: D: 6cm, d: 1cm; D: 4cm d: 0.5cm; D: 3cm N/S x 4 E/W, d: 0.5cm. Arc of cupmarks from N end: D: 4cm N/S x 5cm E/W; D: 4cm N/S x 5cm E/W; D: 4cm. Views at S towards the Beara Peninsula. Identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe (2018). Compiled by: Aoibheann Lambe Date of upload: 26 April 2018

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the rock art may have held ritual or territorial significance, possibly linked to early farming communities or symbolic landscape markers. Its meaning or specific folklore remains unrecorded.

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