Derrynablaha has a high density of rock art, although the sites are scattered across a number of often boggy fields and many are hard to see. Derrynablaha 15 is a large, sloping, angular boulder about four metres by four metres in size, which has a number of cup-and-ring motifs.
Most of the motifs are near the southern end of the boulder, where there are five cup-and-rings, three cup-and-two rings, the outer ring in one being gapped, at least six cupmarks and a scattering of pocking. Beside one of the cupmarks is a lightly pocked, incomplete oval.
A few metres away is another, smaller rock with a very rough surface.
The rock has only two motifs: “The rock art is very weathered yet traceable and concentrated upon the western half of the rock surface, to W of natural fracture (long-axis N-S): Two cup-and-one ring (total diam. c. 12cm) situated c. 34cm apart. The western motif has a cupmark and a complete ring. The eastern motif has a cupmark and incomplete ring, which encloses W-half of cupmark only”.
Getting to Derrynablaha 15
Although these two boulders are a fair distance from the road, they are next to a farm road which provides relatively easy access. Walk down the rough road until you reach the two boulders, which are on the left of the road (at 51.931792 , -9.790706).
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