Rock Art, DERRYNABLAHA

Rock Art in Ireland, dating from the Bronze Age

This lichened, flat-topped boulder measures 1.2m x .75m x .55m high, and its decorated upper surface is divided into two sections by a fissure. The lower section, at SE, features an irregular field outlined by grooves which contains over twenty cupmarks and individual pockings, as well as two rings. The larger of these rings is oval in form, and encloses a central cupmark surrounded by seven smaller cupmarks and several pockmarks. The smaller ring is circular in form, and features a central cupmark and a radial line extending from the ring; the ring is formed by a groove and an arc of shallow pocking. Abutting this irregular field is an approximately oval ring which encloses seven cupmarks. Elsewhere on this level are some isolated cupmarks and a cup-and-ring. On the upper section of the boulder, at NW, are a number of cupmarks and pock-marks. Traces of single rings surround two of the cupmarks, and a short curved groove runs from the NW edge of the rock (Anati 1963, 8, No. 12; Finlay 1973, 83-4). Anati recorded a 'megalithic wall', a 'stone circle' and a 'barrow' in close proximity to this boulder (1963, 8). He appears to have been referring, respectively, to an old field boundary, remnants of a stone wall enclosing a hummock and a poorly defined circular area outlined by outcrop on its W side, all of which occur to the SW of the rock art. To see a 3D model of this monument vi

Period:
Bronze Age

Coordinates:
51.93°N, 9.80°W

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