This page enables a detailed search of indigenous rock art and heritage sites, including engravings, cave art and stone arrangements.
First documented in the 1860s, the Clonfinlough Stone in County Offaly is a large limestone boulder with a variety of motifs. These include unusual phi figures, which may date back to prehistoric times or the 13-14th century Christian era.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 40
- Motifs: Cross, Cupmarks, Foot, Lines, Phi figure
- Year first recorded: 1860
A small but complex Aboriginal engraving site above Coal and Candle Creek (West Head). It has 66 motifs, including 27 mundoes, and axe grinding grooves.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 66
- Motifs: Bird, Echidna, Eel, Kangaroo, Man, Mundoe (foot), Oval
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- Year first recorded: 1940
- View site sketch
The Coat of Arms Cave or Koh shelter in the Canoelands area contains considerable Aboriginal rock art, with over 50 figures in red ochre, white and charcoal.
- Quality: 5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
- Number of motifs: 55
- Motifs: Bird, Boomerang, Echidna, Emu, Hand, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1977
A shallow shelter at the base of very tall cliffs on a spur off the Coba Ridge. The Aboriginal charcoal art drawings are very weathered.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2020
A shallow shelter at the base of a cliff along Coba Ridge, which contains very weathered fragments of Aboriginal drawings.
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 2020
An Aboriginal engraving of a Daramulan figure and a bird, on a long but narrow rock platform near the Coba Ridge walking track.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Bird, Daramulan
- Year first recorded: 2019
A small Aboriginal engraving site with a kangaroo and Daramulan figure, on a small rock platform near the Coba Ridge in Marramarra National Park.
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 2
- Motifs: Daramulan, Kangaroo
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
- Year first recorded: 1977
Aboriginal engravings of four kangaroos on a large rock platform near the Coba Ridge Fire Trail.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 4
- Motifs: Kangaroo
- Year first recorded: 2020
Ten Aboriginal hand stencils (most of them very weathered) in a low overhang along Coba Ridge.
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Stencil - Hand
- Number of motifs: 10
- Motifs: Hand
- Year first recorded: 2020
A scarred tree along the Neverfail Fire Trail (Coba Ridge) in Marramarra National Park.
- Site condition: Good
- Scarred Tree
- Year first recorded: 2019
An Aboriginal engraving site near Collingridge Point has three motifs and a number of axe grinding grooves - as well as a non-Aboriginal (European) dinosaur carving,
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Fish, Indeterminate figure
- Year first recorded: 1982
A large rock located in the Lane Cove National Park, which has both Aboriginal and European engravings.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Weathered
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Boomerang, Crescent
- Year first recorded: 1990
- View site sketch
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 11
- Motifs: Club, Eel, Fish, Kangaroo, Mundoe (foot)
- Year first recorded: 1974
An Aboriginal engraving site depicting a school of seven fish, towards the end of West Head Road
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 7
- Motifs: Fish
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1965
- View site sketch
- Quality: 3/5
- Site condition: Good
- Water Hole
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Lines
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
- Year first recorded: 1984
An Aboriginal engraving site with five coolamons (water containers) and an axe grinding groove near the Basin Trail
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Basket, Fish
- Year first recorded: 2017
An extensively vandalised site along Coolana Brook, there is no longer any evidence of the 30 Aboriginal rock art motifs documented here in the 1970s.
- Quality: 1/5
- Site condition: Vandalised
- Cave Painting
- Number of motifs: 30
- Year first recorded: 1977
A boulder with rock art near Lake Coomasaharn which has a cup with two rings and three small cup motifs.
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 3
- Motifs: Cup-and-Ring
- Year first recorded: 2018
An interesting Aboriginal engraving site in the bed of Coorumbine Creek, first documented by Ian Sim in 1969 and depicting a whale and three men.
- Quality: 2/5
- Site condition: Good
- Axe Grinding Groove (AGG), Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 6
- Motifs: Club, Man, Man Inside Whale, Spear, Whale
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- Year first recorded: 1969
- View site sketch
The Corr Aille Spiral is a Bronze Age rock art site along a pre-Christian pilgrimage route on the Dingle peninsula. It has a single spiral or "cup and ring" motif.
- Quality: 4/5
- Site condition: Good
- Rock engraving
- Number of motifs: 1
- Motifs: Cup-and-Ring
- Year first recorded: 2011