What is recorded here

No Gortbrack fact supplied that you can witness, judge or lose. An unknown owner, a unknown title and an unnamed region block the request.

Donated to UCC (CO074-149---- ) from the collection of Admiral Boyle Somerville (1938, 59) and said to come from Gortbrac farm. Shee (1968, 146-149) describes the stone which measures '147cm x 70cm and approximately 13cm thick', decorated with 'cupmarks, circles and grooves'. The motifs include a cup-and-circle with radial line; a deep cupmark with concentric pennannular circle and radial line, and a cupmark enclosed in an arc which is 'divided from the rest of the decoration by a well picked arc'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

This rock art panel, likely dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2500–500 BCE), may represent symbolic or ritual markings, possibly linked to territorial, spiritual, or ancestral practices. Its meaning remains undeciphered, but such motifs are commonly found in west Cork and may relate to local folklore or early Celtic traditions.

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