What is recorded here

Much worn cupmarks still mark a high escarpment rock near Magheranaul, though dynamite broke the outcrop for quarrying before 1988. The marks may have been made long before guns, roadworks or even farms, when people struck stone for no reason except wanting it to remember. What remains is a bruised edge of that older impulse, half buried in soil and haste.

Described by Van Hoek as 'Further to the NNW and on a higher level is another rock forming part of the escarpment. It has a number of much worn single cupmarks (Van Hoek 1987, 36).' This area of rock outcrop had been blown up with dynamite for quarrying by 1988 (Van Hoek 1988, 47). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 30 May 2010

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the cupmarked rock art at Magheranaul may have had ritual or ceremonial significance, possibly linked to water sources or territorial markers. No specific folklore is recorded for this site.

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