What is recorded here

Rock art in Dromtine is a weathered sandstone boulder in County Kerry, Ireland, marked by a squarish picked ring, a long line, and a cupmark. The marks are small enough to trace with a fingertip yet clear enough to show that someone sat beside the stone and shaped its surface on purpose. Pasture and vegetation now cover parts of the boulder, but the ring remains the centre of the place, holding the scene like a handle.

In gently sloping rough pasture on the S slope of the hillock, the largely level and exposed portion of the weathered upper surface of this earthfast sandstone boulder (L. 1.4m N/S ,Wth 1m E/W at its S end, narrowing to c. 0.5m at its N extent), partly overlain with vegetation at E, W and S, is inscribed with a centrally located picked ring (Wth 1.5–1.75cm, D 3¬–8mm) which is squarish in shape (sides c. 15cm). The area enclosed by the ring has been lightly worked and its level is slightly lower (2–5mm) than the surrounding surface. E of the ring, a clearly defined picked line (Wth 3cm, D 3¬–8mm) runs NNE/SSW for approx. 1.1m, continuing under the vegetation at its N and S extents. Beyond the picked line to E, approx. 0.5m SE of the ring, a cupmark (diam. 6cm, D c. 8mm) is partly overlain by vegetation. Other motifs, including a line running from the ring and continuing towards SW, are faintly traceable. Compiled by: Aoibheann Lambe Date of upload/revision: 13 May 2019

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