I was totally taken by surprise with this stone as it is not on the map. I nearly drove past it but was curious about its shape. It did not look like a stone usually put in front of a house to stop people parking.
My natural curiosity got the better of me and I stopped to have a look. I am so glad I did. The stone has one central bullaun and one shallow cup either side of it. Unfortunately, it is cemented on to the footpath and the cement has a very shoddy inscription in it.
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There are actually three small depressions around the central bullaun, making this one of the very few examples of cup-marks sharing the same stone as a bullaun. Two of them are very worn which may mean that there were once other marking on the stone that have now vanished. The inscription in the concrete is fading now.
A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
Roundwood Graveyard III (Co. Wicklow) | Kelshamore (Co. Wicklow) | Ballymore Eustace West (Co. Kildare) |
Banagher (Co. Derry) | St Brigit's Stone (Co. Cavan) | The Knee (Co. Tipperary) |