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Rock art (present location) in Unknown Townland

Rock art (present location)

What is recorded here

Unknown Townland in County Dublin holds one of three decorated stones from a vanished ringfort. The fort disappeared in the 1940s, but the stone remained with two designs: a cup mark surrounded by four rings and another cup mark with three rings. Those markings may have been a boundary, a prayer, a game or a warning. They still belong to the place, even when the wall that carried them no longer does.
This is one of three decorated stones that were formerly incorporated into a ringfort (ME009-063----) which was levelled in the 1940's (Shee-Twohig 2001, 120, A). This had two designs, a cup mark surrounded by four rings and another cupmark with three rings. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 15 May 2012
This rock art, featuring a cup mark surrounded by four rings, is likely from the Bronze Age and may have had ritual or symbolic significance. Similar motifs are often associated with ceremonial or astronomical functions in prehistoric contexts.

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