What is recorded here

Forget the grand temple, there is a rectangular stone, 1.6 metres long, sitting on a green strip between a car park and Ballinteer Avenue. It bears four shallow cup-marks, each 6 to 8 centimetres wide, but cutting scars on its sides suggest a mason made them rather than a prehistoric hand. The stone was moved from an unknown place, stripping it of context and leaving only shape behind. It is a placeholder now, a fragment of human effort reduced to a geometric curiosity on a busy Dublin roadside.

This rectangular-shaped stone (L 1.6m x Wth 0.95m x H 0.55m) has been moved to its present location on a green area in front of Ballinteer Shopping Centre, Co. Dublin. The original location of this rock is unknown. The surface of the stone has four-circular-shaped cup-marks (diam. 6-8cm x D 3cm) on the surface of the stone standing on a green area between the car-park and the public road (Ballinteer Avenue). The antiquity of this stone is uncertain and there is evidence of stone cutting marks on the sides of the stone which may suggest that these cup-marks are related to stone working rather than prehistoric art, but this is uncertain. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Martin Fitzmaurice

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