Rock art

The National Monuments Service's description

Rock art identified and described by Aoibheann Lambe as; '10m north of a stream in boggy upland pasture looking upslope at south-west to Mullaghnarakill hill between Coomnacronia and Coomeglaslaw lakes and at north-east past Laughtshee towards Castlemaine Harbour, the upper surface of a roughly rectangular shaped sandstone rock outcrop measuring c. 7m long on its NE/SW axis and c. 2.5m wide, is inscribed with 8 rosettes, 15+ cup-and-rings, 20+ cupmarks as well as meandering grooves some of which intersect each other and some of which enclose one or more motifs. The rosettes are composed of a central cupmark (D c. 4cm) enclosed by a ring (D c. 10cm) of evenly spaced mini-cupmarks (D 2cm). In 5 instances, the ring is composed of 7 mini-cupmarks, in two instances the ring has 9 mini-cupmarks and there is one mini-rosette composed of a mini-cupmark enclosed by a ring of 5 dimples. The cup-and-rings and cupmarks (some of which are oval or sub-circular in shape) occur in groups, singly or in association with rosettes'.

See attached photographs courtesy of Aoibheann Lambe

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Aoibheann Lambe

Date of upload: 7 October 2022