Cupmarked stone in Bobsville, County Meath

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What is recorded here

A moss-covered stone (dims 1.5m x 0.9m; T 0.25-0.3m) set upright on its long side in the NW corner of the graveyard (ME015-056007-) of CLonabreaney has about 30-40 cup-marks (diam. 3-5cm) on one face (Moore and Kenny 1976, 34) and may have had more as two shallow hollows probably represent damage. Eogan (2008, 5) tentatively suggests the this and other stones of megalithic proportions may have derived from a passage tomb. See the attached image.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME015-056002

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