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Rock art in Kealduff Upper

Rock art

What is recorded here

Kealduff Upper holds three carvings on a low sandstone ledge, two cup-and-rings and one solitary cupmark spaced across its eastern face. The stone narrows toward the northeast, forcing a person to crouch or stretch before the marks become visible. Lichen still creeps across the surface, slowing the loss of what hands made long before writing existed.
Rock art identified and described by Aoibheann Lambe as; 'Low-lying sandstone outcropping measuring c. 4m NS x 2m EW, narrowing at NE, generally lightly lichen encrusted, its irregular E facing surface is inscribed with a cupmark and two cup-and-rings. A cup-and-ring (D: cupmark 4cm, ring 10cm) occurring midway along the length of the outcrop and 65cm in from the W side, has a cupmark (D: 4cm) c. 20cm to SW and the other cup-and-ring (D: cupmark 3cm, ring 7cm) is 45cm to NE'. Duplicate site with KE071-179---- See attached photographs courtesy of Aoibheann Lambe Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Aoibheann Lambe Date of upload: 7 October 2022

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