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The large cup and ring design on the western face with Mount Leinster in the background lit by some lovely evening light.

With some of the external and internal kerb visible

As much as an aerial view as you can get without taking flight. Shows kerb and tomb.

Carvings on an orthostat inside the ante-chamber

Get back you beast or my Daddy will be very, VERY cross...

Taken with a very wide angle lens, makes the little hollow look much larger than it is! Yes, that’s some black bin liner, you can’t see the barbed wire covering the stone I’m squatting on however.

Taken while crouched in between the pile of boulders this panel is now part of.

With the invisible man for scale

After the Rain

In the foreground is the cup with almond-shaped ring, the parallel lines are where the splash of light can be seen further up the outcrop. Looking east again.

Some of the odd parallel lines peculiar to the Island of Doagh

Looking east towards Malin

A south west view near sunset

Looking roughly eastward across the valley towards Lough Brin

The rock art with the ‘right side’ up and the two bullauns

The underside of the rock art panel seems to have more cups, perhaps with very worn rings? In the background we uncovered two large, lovely bullaun stones, the base of a rotary quern and what looks like the remains of a church window arch.

No this is not a joke nor a neolithic representation of Casper the ghost-god. I think.

Photo taken outside Graiguenamanagh Library with kind permission. Usually sits beside a less picturesque fileing cabinet.

This is a rather nice little boulder panel, planted (literally) in the garden of the lovely woman who discovered it during field clearance in 2004.

A blizzard of snow envelops the hills in the background

On a stormy and snowy afternoon

Gratuitous use of Fisheye

The interior of the arch, the panel is on the small red sandstone face in the lower right.

A fisheye view of the tomb and it’s views, by keeping the horizon centred the fisheye keeps the horizontal straight.

Another odd collection of motifs, all the panels I found had a similar kind of unfinshed and self-concious feel

This panel seems to consist only of one cup and ring on the nearest edge, another visible higher on the face and a single cup mark at the top of the stone (just off shot left)

This is a large panel with widely spaced motifs, there are more that can’t be seen at the top left

Rock Art in the Rain