Rock Art, CARROWREAGH OR CRAIGNACALLY

Rock Art in Ireland, dating from the Bronze Age

In pasture, located on a partly grass-covered, low irregular-shaped knoll of rock outcropping in the S half of Doagh Island, overlooking Trawbreaga Bay to S. The rock art is located on a sheet of bedrock (c. 5m E–W; c. 4m N–S) straddling the top SE edge of the knoll; a steeply-sloping rock face defines the E edge of the exposed surface, and there is a cluster of upright boulders just beyond the W edge. While the rock surface is relatively smooth, the bedrock sheet as a whole has a corrugated appearance, being naturally divided into several narrow sections by a series of parallel N–S creaks and folds. The N third, which coincides with the top of the knoll, is relatively flat; the centre and S part of the rock surface dips and slopes gently to S. A cup-and-two-ring motif is evident in one of the middle sections on the level upper portion of the bedrock sheet. The central circular cup (diam. 0.07-0.08m; D 0.02m) is well defined, but the two concentric rings (overall diam. c. 0.3m) are very shallow and barely visible. The inner ring (diam. c. 0.15m) appears to be gapped at SE. In 2018 a radial groove was noted, extending from the central cupmark downslope to SSE towards a small, natural oblong hollow in the rock surface; this radial groove was not evident during an inspection in 2020. There are also a number of smaller, shallow, barely discernible cupmarks (diam. c. 0.05-0.07m): on

Period:
Bronze Age

Coordinates:
55.30°N, 7.34°W

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