What is recorded here

Drumirril 24: Rock art in County Monaghan. Stones marked before written memory. People lived beside them, perhaps feeding animals or simply passing through. The marks still touch the eye, unchanged since human hands first shaped them.

'Drumirril 24' 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 Unpublished PHD thesis, University College Dublin.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, spiritual beliefs, or ancestral memory. Its meaning remains undeciphered, but such motifs are often associated with landscape features and seasonal cycles in prehistoric Ireland.

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