Magheranaul, county Donegal

C 426 500 - Sheet 3

Nearest village: Malin


One of four separate rock-surfaces decorated with cups and rings, parallel grooves, cups and gapped-rings with radial grooves, and 'cartouche' motifs.
This rock, it seems, was dynamited out of sheer spite in 1988.


Another of the engraved rock-surfaces.
C 43228 49720 on GPS


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The same outcrop photographed some 30 years later
by
Ken Williams.

 

Another rock-outcrop photographed by Ken Williams.

 

This petroglyph at Cloontagh Lake, here photographed by Ken Williams,
is not far away.


5 km due E of Magheranaul, in Drumcarbit (C 48666 49828 GPS), some 5 km N of Carndonagh,
is a single stone beautifully incised with 9 penannular rings around a cup,
here photographed also by
Ken Williams.



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