What is recorded here

Ten metres north of a stream in boggy upland pasture, a seven-metre sandstone slab holds eight rosettes, fifteen cup-and-rings and twenty cupmarks beneath the sky between Coomnacronia and Coomeglaslaw lakes. Someone sat on that cold edge, cutting tiny rings around central dots while rain threatened the bog and sheep grazed nearby. The stones still point toward Mullaghnarakill and Castlemaine Harbour, keeping the shape of that forgotten afternoon.

Rock art identified and described by Aoibheann Lambe as; '10m north of a stream in boggy upland pasture looking upslope at south-west to Mullaghnarakill hill between Coomnacronia and Coomeglaslaw lakes and at north-east past Laughtshee towards Castlemaine Harbour, the upper surface of a roughly rectangular shaped sandstone rock outcrop measuring c. 7m long on its NE/SW axis and c. 2.5m wide, is inscribed with 8 rosettes, 15+ cup-and-rings, 20+ cupmarks as well as meandering grooves some of which intersect each other and some of which enclose one or more motifs. The rosettes are composed of a central cupmark (D c. 4cm) enclosed by a ring (D c. 10cm) of evenly spaced mini-cupmarks (D 2cm). In 5 instances, the ring is composed of 7 mini-cupmarks, in two instances the ring has 9 mini-cupmarks and there is one mini-rosette composed of a mini-cupmark enclosed by a ring of 5 dimples. The cup-and-rings and cupmarks (some of which are oval or sub-circular in shape) occur in groups, singly or in association with rosettes'. 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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