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Images

Image of Mevagh (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by CianMcLiam

This is another section of the outcrop, this time across the top surface which is very overgrown in parts and slopes into a field wall.

Image credit: Ken Williams/ShadowsandStone.com 2007

CianMcLiam Jan 3, 2008

Vanishing fast under the turf

Image credit: Ken Williams/ShadowsandStone.com 2007

CianMcLiam Jan 2, 2008

This is a section of the western face of the outcrop, there’s quite a collection of motifs here that are visible and more that don’t show up so clearly. The decoration continues up across the top of the outcrop, under the growth of mosses and grass.

Image credit: Ken Williams/ShadowsandStone.com 2007

CianMcLiam Jan 1, 2008

This is one of the special panels, a spiral-like motif beside a rosette of cup and rings, and more cup and rings trailing off the frame.

Image credit: Ken Williams/ShadowsandStone.com 2007

CianMcLiam Jan 1, 2008

This is the eastern face of the outcrop, virtually every surface on this face and across the top is carved, as well as large portions of the west face also.

Image credit: Ken Williams/ShadowsandStone.com 2007

CianMcLiam Jan 1, 2008

Articles

Mevagh

Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art

ryaner Sep 14, 2013

We asked for permission to visit the rock at the small cottage on the right hand side of the lane as you head down. We were met with suspicion and hostility and told that no, we couldn’t visit the site. I asked why was that and the old farmer told of how many people had come and damaged the fences and crops around the stone. The field that you would have to cross is too wet to be a tillage field so half of his argument was bull’. I explained that the people who had pissed him off previously maybe didn’t have the same respect or reverence for the site and that me and my four year old daughter would do our best to leave his place exactly as we found it. I pressed him a bit, and felt then and feel now that if I had pushed a little further, he’d have relented, but I wasn’t up for the argument, annoyed at his small-mindedness and suspicion. I’m not in Donegal that often and will probably never come back this way again. Shame.