What is recorded here

Aoibheann Lambe identified the site in 2014, revealing a weathered triangular surface where two cupmarks sit inside complete pickmarked rings. The rough rock rests on a gentle slope above the Behy River valley, bordered by a drystone wall and a deep gorge. Whoever struck those rings worked beside a living landscape of heath, water and mountain shadow, marking a small point in the vast local world.

This monument was initially identified as rock art by Aoibheann Lambe in 2014. In mountain heath, on a gentle NE-facing slope (181m OD) scattered with abundant boulders and rock outcrop, overlooking Behy River valley to NE and overlooked by mountains SE->W->NE. Drystone field boundary (long-axis NNW-SSE) is c. 2m to E and edge of gorge (D 8-10m) is c. 6m to N. A very rough and fractured, rock outcrop (dims. 1.35m N-S; 0.80m E-W; max. H 0.50m at E), having a roughly triangular-shaped decorated surface (dims. 0.40m N-S; 0.40m E-W) with a gentle W-facing tilt. The rock art consists of a two-cup-and-two ring motif (dims. 0.36m N-S; 0.4m E-W) off-centre to S. It consists of a large cupmark (diam. 6cm; D 16mm) and small cupmark (diam. 3.5cm; D 4mm) which are enclosed by two complete rings (Wth 1-2cm; D 4-5mm) which are sub-oval in plan and comprised of pickmarks. Rock art is very weathered and the rough decorated surface bears natural pock-like depressions and parallel fractures and fissures (long-axis N-S). 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 farming communities. No specific folklore is recorded for the site.

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