What is recorded here
Drumirril 36 remains a recorded rock art panel in County Monaghan, preserved in Blaze O' Connor's inventory rather than lost to forgetting. The stones may have marked a boundary, a memory or a place where people gathered when the land was younger. They still hold that much of the world unchanged, waiting for someone to look closely enough to hear what they recorded.
'Drumirril 36' in Blaze O' Connor's 'Inventory of Rock Art panels' - see O' Connor B. 2006, 272, 'Inscribed Landscapes contextualising prehistoric rock art in Ireland'. Unpublished PHD thesis, University College Dublin.
Date of upload: 24 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.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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