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Rock art in Onagh

Rock art

What is recorded here

A large earth-fast quadrangular granite boulder (dims L 2.6m; Wth 2.3m; H 0.55m) with a smooth, sub-circular depression (diams. 0.28m; 0.25m; D 0.06m) just SW of centre. There are several small 'cups' in the roughly flat, but otherwise fissured and pitted upper surface. (SMR file) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 31 January 2013
Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this rock art may represent ritual or symbolic markings, possibly linked to water or fertility, given the central depression's form. Similar features in other regions have been associated with ceremonial use or territorial markers.

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