What is recorded here
Kealduff Upper holds a tent-shaped rock marked by a single cup and faint ring, visible across wet bog to another art panel. The quartz veins catch light like frozen water, suggesting the site remained vivid rather than forgotten. A person may have knelt there, read the marks, and left the place charged with attention.
Partly overlain by wet boggy ground, a rock with prominent quartz veins whose upper portion is slightly tent-shaped (long axis c.1m NE/SW, H c.0.4m) bears a cupmark (diam. 5cm) with faint traces of what may be an enclosing ring upon its uppermost surface. This rock is inter-visible with the rock art panel (KE071-201----), c.20m to SE.
Compiled by: Aoibheann Lambe
Date of upload/revision: 14 March 2022
Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this rock art may have had ritual or symbolic significance, possibly linked to water or the landscape. Cupmarks are often associated with ceremonial practices or astronomical alignments, though specific folklore or use remains unrecorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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