What is recorded here

Aoibheann Lambe identified the rock art in 2014 on a rough boulder marking the west end of an eleven-metre field boundary overlooking the Blackwater river valley. A cup-and-ring motif and several cupmarks sit clearly upon the western face, while a kerb circle, standing stone and stone row wait nearby to the east. The markers may have guided herds across the Mullaghanattin spur or recorded a boundary people still recognised long after the pasture changed hands.

This monument was initially identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe in 2014. In rough pasture (154m OD), on the NW side of a low hillock, on level area of ground of an otherwise S-facing slope, on SE spur of Mullaghanattin mountain range. Overlooking the Blackwater river valley S->W. This rock art stone forms the W end of a low, linear earth and stone field boundary (L 11m; long-axis WNW-ESE). A slightly rough and fractured boulder (dims. 1.54m N-S; 1.91m N-S; max. H 0.59m at N) with a rectangular decorated surface upon the upper portion of the W-facing aspect. A cup-and-ring motif (overall diam. 18cm; ring Wth 2.5cm; D 15cm; cup diam. 6cm; D 5mm) is clearly very visible at highest part of stone surface, to E side of decorated surface. Three cupmarks (diam. 4cm; D 5mm; diam. 5cm; D 5mm; diam. 4cm; D 3mm) are close to W. A possible cupmark (diam. 4cm; D 4mm) is located centrally and a second potential cupmark (diam. 4cm; D 4mm) is situated at edge of moss covered area, to S. Kerb circle (KE091-015001-), standing stone (KE091-015002-) and stone row (KE091-015003-) are located nearby to E. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 6 July 2017

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