What is recorded here

Kealduff Upper holds a two-metre earthfast rock in cutaway bog, its southwest face marked by a four-centimetre cup surrounded by three rings and two radial grooves. The lines suggest a deliberate hand shaping stone long before written history, perhaps guiding water, marking territory or recording a ritual now forgotten. The bog preserved the rock while swallowing the lives that made it, leaving only geometry behind.

Rock art identified and described by Aoibheann Lambe as follows; 'In cutaway bog, an earthfast rock whose exposed surface measures approx 2m NW/SE, 1.2m NE/SW, inscribed on its SW facing side with rock art which includes a cup-and-3 ring motif (cup Diam: 4cm, outer ring Diam: 20cm) from whose central cupmark one radial groove extends (c. 0.2m) towards SE and another (c. 10cm) towards NE where it joins a natural crack'. See attached photographs provided 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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