What is recorded here

Thirty-seven cup-marks once dimpled the flat top of a rough sandstone boulder near Derrintinny, each no deeper than a child’s fist and no wider than a coin. The place answered to Lackmogue, blending a flagstone root with the name of a local saint, as if human memory and divine presence had shared one address. That stone has vanished from the landscape, leaving behind a hole where certainty used to sit.

Marked 'Lackmogue' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. The root, lack, is an anglicization of leac, a flagstone. St. Mogue was a local saint. Davies (1948, 94) described a rough boulder of sandstone, with about thirty-seven cup-marks on the flat upper surface, the largest not more than 0.75m in depth and 0.07m across. Not located. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the Bullaun stone in Derrintinny was probably used for ritual or symbolic purposes, as suggested by its cup-markings. Such stones are often associated with early Christian traditions and local saints, possibly linking it to St. Mogue in later folklore.

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