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Drumgonnelly : Rock Art

CountyLouth
Grid RefH 958 049
GPSH 95750 0490 (5m)
Longitude6° 32' 29.74" W
Latitude53° 56' 41.38" N
Nearest TownLouth (3.7 Km)
OS Sheet36
UTM zone29U
UTM x661345.24855714
UTM y5980182.229242
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 7th October 2007

After being taken to the location of this panel by a lad from the farm I was very disappointed. There are two huge outcrops, one either side of a track, that have zillions of what look like natural cup marks. The outcrop to the east of the track is huge and after scouring it for 15 minutes without luck I moved on to the other one.

After another 10 minutes I was about to give up when I saw the faintest of rings around a cup mark. Then, after pouring water over the slab, more motifs became visible ... just. This panel really is badly eroded. I managed to pick out a cup with three rings and three cups with two rings. These lie to one side of a large fisure that runs across the panel. A little later I noticed another cup with two rings on the other side of the crack.

To make it easy for people to locate the carved panel - it is below the second fence post from the track.

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