What is recorded here

Rock art (present location) in Forenaghts Great is a greywacke boulder in County Kildare, Ireland, marked with six groups of concentric circles, cupmarks and combinations of both. A plough lifted it in 1975 near Furness Church, where it still lies. Someone cut those repeated marks into solid stone, perhaps counting, praying or claiming a place long before written memory.

Found in 1975 during ploughing (location designated KD019-025----) c. 100m S of Furness Church (KD019-024001-) in the graveyard of which (KD019-024002-) it now lies. A boulder of local metamorphosed greywacke (dims. L 1.33m; Wth 0.97m; H 0.50m) is decorated on one face with a pattern of six groups of concentric circles, cupmarks and combinations of both. (Shee 1975-6, 496-500; Meagher 1974-9, 118) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this rock art may have held ritual or territorial significance, possibly linked to early farming communities or local spiritual beliefs. Its placement near a church and within a graveyard suggests later associations with Christian sites, though original prehistoric meaning remains unclear.

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