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Meendoran : Rock Art

CountyDonegal
Grid RefC 395 422
GPSC 39507 42170 (5m)
Longitude7° 22' 44.77" W
Latitude55° 13' 29.96" N
Nearest TownClonmany (4.6 Km)
OS Sheet3
UTM zone29U
UTM x603100.63207229
UTM y6121026.3554807
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Visit Notes

Saturday, 27th October 2007

Running across the ridge between Lough Naminri and Lough Fada there is a line of rock outcrops. Several of these are carved with cup and ring motifs. In the poor weather on the day of this visit I was only able to locate on carved surface, which is towards the west end of the outcrops.

The panel occupies the highest point of the largest outcrop. The designs are very worn, but it is still possible to make out several cup and ring devices as well as some single cups.

The weird ambient light made it very difficult to take a good photo of the surface and get the designs to stand out. The panel is easy to reach, though, so I'll just have to stop here again in better weather.

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