What is recorded here

Unknown Townland holds a broken boulder carrying a cupmark inside four rings and a double circle beside it. The stone probably formed part of a larger decorated surface before road works at Kildowan in 1984 pulled it from spoil. It is small enough to lift, yet large enough to have carried a whole world of marks now lost.

This boulder (0.61m x 0.52m; Th 0.18m) is carved with a cupmark surrounded by four incised rings, and a second attached motif consisting of a double circle. It is probably a fragment of a larger decorated stone and was recovered in 1984 in the course of road widening from spoil beside at Kildowan, Co. Kildare (KD032-051----). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 March 2014

This rock art, featuring a cupmark with incised rings and a double circle, is likely from the Neolithic or Bronze Age period. Such motifs are commonly associated with ritual or ceremonial practices, possibly linked to water sources or territorial markers in prehistoric landscapes.

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