After parking at the gate to the field where this rock art is and seeing a heavily quarried rock outcrop my heart sank. I knew that there were still some carvings there, because Ken Williams had visited the site recently, but the sight of so much damage to a carved outcrop and the potential loss of carvings is terrible.
After trudging up the very muddy and cow-patty track I started scouring the remaining surfaces for motifs. The rock, like Drumgonnelly (County Louth) and Drumsinnot (County Louth), is covered with natural cup marks, so spotting a worn design is very difficult. However, eventually I managed to find one very eroded cup-and-ring motif with three rings. This is at the extreme west end of the outcrop. This does not seem to be part of the group of motifs shown in the Louth Survey, so there could be more hidden below the areas of rock that are now covered by a thin layer of grass.
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