Rock Art, EMPER

Rock Art in Ireland, dating from the Bronze Age

Situated on flat pasture land with ringfort (WM010-008----) marked on OS maps as ‘Rathduff’ containing a souterrain (WM010-008001-) decorated with a panel of rock art and Bronze Age flat cemetery (WM010-009----) in adjoining field to SE (Weir 1938, 146-7). This stone has been described by O’Reilly (2010, 79-80) as follows: ‘The stone from Rathduff, Emper, was reported by Hugh Weir in 1938. It is located in a souterrain (WM010-008001-) beneath a ringfort (WM010-008----) called Rathduff in the townland of the same name. This ringfort is on a private farm with no admittance to the public. The souterrain is accessed through an entrance on the north side of the ringfort interior. This leads to a well-constructed stone-built chamber with two passages leading away from it. Built into the souterrain wall on the right-hand side of the right passage is a long stone decorated with prehistoric rock art. The visible portion of the stone measures approximately 85 x 28cm. It is decorated with irregular linear grooves as well as a cup-mark, four cup-and-ring motifs and a concentric circle motif. The concentric circle motif measures approximately 14cm in diameter and consists of two encircling rings and traces of a third. Unusually these rings enclose not a cup-mark, but a raised circular area approximately 5cm in diameter. Radiating out from the centre and cutting through the lower part of the

Period:
Bronze Age

Coordinates:
53.60°N, 7.57°W

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