What is recorded here

Aoibheann Lambe identified the site in 2014, pulling five ancient cupmarks and strange rings out of a fractured sandstone slab half-strangled by peat. The markers sit on a gentle slope in County Kerry, waiting for human eyes after centuries of bog growth. They are not display pieces, but survival witnesses, still holding the shape of the hands that cut them.

This monument was initially identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe in 2014. In area of cutaway bog, on a gentle NE-facing slope (205m), c. 11m to S of rock art site (KE071-082----); turf bank c. 4m to NW. A very rough and fractured, sandstone rock (dims. 2.00m NE-SW; 1.00m NW-SE; max. H 0.20m), which has a flat, irregular shaped decorated surface (dims. 0.70m NE-SW; 0.45m NW-SE). Almost half of this rock is covered by thick peat and the motifs that are visible are extremely weathered. The motifs are concentrated upon the exposed NE-half of decorated surface and consist of five cupmarks. Two cupmarks (diam. 4cm; D 5-6mm) are joined together by a curvilinear groove (L 9cm; Wth 1cm; D 3-4mm) and there is a smaller cupmark (diam. 2.5cm; D 3mm) located between these. A curvilinear groove encloses this set of motifs E->S->W. A large cupmark (diam. 10cm; D 3-4mm) is located to N and a second similar sized cupmark to W, is partially covered by peat. Two cup-and-one ring motifs (diam. 7-9cm) having a cupmark (diam. 3.5-4cm; D 4mm) and ring (Wth 1cm; D 2-3mm) are located centrally and to E. A cup-and-ring motif (diam. 22cm) is defined by a square cup (dims. L 9cm; D 4mm) with rounded corners and a ring (Wth 1.5-2cm; D 2mm). 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 symbolic significance, possibly linked to landscape features or early land use. No specific folklore is recorded for the site.

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