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Rock art in Drumirril

Rock art

What is recorded here

Drumirril 31 is a rock art panel in County Monaghan, Ireland, listed in Blaze O' Connor's inventory. The exact meaning of its marks has faded, but the stones still hold the shape of human attention. Perhaps someone traced circles, lines or symbols while living beside that land. The panel remains as a quiet witness to hands that touched stone before written memory began.
'Drumirril 31' in Blaze O' Connor's 'Inventory of Rock Art panels' - see O' Connor B. 2006, 270, 'Inscribed Landscapes contextualising prehistoric rock art in Ireland'. Unpublished PHD thesis, University College Dublin. Date of upload: 23 August 2010
Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the rock art at Drumirril may have held ritual or symbolic significance, possibly linked to territorial markers, celestial observations, or ancestral beliefs common in prehistoric Ireland.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

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