What is recorded here

Rock art in Magheranaul is a triangular stone standing eighty centimetres tall in County Donegal, Ireland. Two cup marks cut its south-west face, the larger eight centimetres across and the smaller five, while the lower one may have worn through an old ring. The stone now sits inside a field boundary, joining two nearby rock panels and a standing stone farther north-west. People may have marked cups there long before fields crossed the place, then lived around the same stones for generations.

Upstanding triangular-shaped orthostat (H 0.8m; base Wth 1.1m ) with two cup marks (diam 8cm; D 2cm; diam. 5cm; 1cm) visible on the SW face. The lower cup mark appears to have traces of a ring around the cup. This stone has been incorporated into a field boundary with nearby panels of rock art (DG004-078/79) 9m to NE and 30m to SW respectively. A standing stone (DG004-047) is located 160m to NW. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 28 May 2010

Likely dates to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, based on the presence of cup marks, which are commonly associated with ritual or symbolic practices in prehistoric Britain and Ireland. The ring around the lower cup mark may indicate a more complex design or a later addition, possibly linked to local ceremonial use or folklore.

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