Rock Art, DERRYNABLAHA

Rock Art in Ireland, dating from the Bronze Age

This low, earthfast boulder measures 2.07m x 1.3m in maximum dimensions and its decorated upper surface slopes upwards to NE. The uppermost section of this surface is set back slightly and bears two cup-and-rings and about twenty simple cupmarks, some of which may be solution pits. The remainder of the decorated surface-features about forty simple cupmarks, two of which are enclosed by a penannular, oval-shaped ring, fourteen cup-and-rings, a cup-and-two rings and a cup-and-four rings (Anati 1963, 4, No.4; Finlay 1973, 76). See attached drawing of rock art taken from O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, Fig. 55 The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 304. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. In rough pasture on the E slopes of Mullaghanattin. This low, earthfast boulder, deturfed when recorded by Anati in the early 1960s, measures up to 2m NW/SE x 1.4m NE/SW. The upper surface is composed of three main sections, the roughly rectangular shaped mid-section flanked by a smaller roughly rectangular section to NW and a triangular shaped lower section to SE. The dominant motifs on the central section are a cup-and-two rings at N and a cup-and-four rings (max. diam 0.34m) at S. Other motifs on thi

Period:
Bronze Age

Coordinates:
51.94°N, 9.80°W

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