What is recorded here

Aoibheann Lambe identified the site in 2016, exposing a weathered cup-and-ring on a low sandstone ledge above the Behy River valley. The marking sits beside milky quartz veins and hidden moss, suggesting human hands shaped the stone long before turf cutters scraped the earth open.

This monument was initially identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe in 2016. In mountain heath and blanket bog, on a NE-facing slope (174m OD), overlooking Behy River valley to NE and overlooked by mountains SE->W->NE. Loose stones and rock outcrop exposed across this area due to turf cutting and disused turf banks to NW and SE. A slightly rough and fractured, low profile, sandstone rock outcrop (dims. 0.50m N-S; 0.70m E-W; max. H 0.10m) having a triangular decorated surface (dims. 0.33m NE-SW; 0.15m NW-SE) which has an S-facing aspect. Rock art is very weathered and faint consisting of a cup-and-one ring motif (diam. 15cm) having a cupmark (diam. 7cm; D 11mm) and a ring (Wth 2.0cm; D 5mm), at S margin of stone; A tuft of green moss to S may obscure other potential motifs. Possible cupmark (diam. 2cm; D 5mm) is 12cm to SW. There are three parallel milky quartz veins (long-axis NW-SE) upon this aspect with one flanking either side of the cup-and-one ring motif and a third is further to E. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 March 2017

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this rock art may have held ritual or territorial significance, possibly linked to landscape features such as the river valley and surrounding mountains. Its meaning remains undeciphered, but such art often reflects symbolic or spiritual connections to the environment.

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