Killinga Cup Marked Stone View all content for Killinga

A low, upright pillar, jutting from the rushes and bushes. Then, behind this growing screen, a vast recumbent slab; 2.7m long, 2m wide and 1.45m thick*. Recorded in the Archaeological Inventory, following local tradition, as a mass rock, it may eventually provide an interesting comparison to a similarly classed and cup-marked boulder at Coorleigh South. Due to the heavy scrub on the south-eastern side of the stone, Jack Roberts' sketch remains the only visual record of the marks or 'circular depressions'**. The fallen part of a NE-SW stone pair, if position and local morphology (Knockatlowig, Knockawaddra W) are taken into account. *Archaeological Inventory of Cork, 1992; No.3271, 354. **Roberts, J., 'Exploring West Cork', 1988; Ch.2, No.12, 53.

Posted by gjrk 23rd March 2009ce Edited 18th May 2009ce

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