What is recorded here
A flat-topped boulder sits on five stones in Cavan, not like a rock that fell but like a table that someone carried. Its top holds shallow cup-marks, and its underside hides eleven more, as if the maker wanted the earth to keep a share of the pattern. Perhaps it was a place for pouring, counting, remembering or warning. The boulder still invites that doubt, which is why it remains alive instead of dead.
A flat-topped boulder rests on five support stones. The upper surface is level and has a number of shallow cup-marks and there are 11 cup-marks visible on its undersurface (pers. comm. G. Burns and J. Nolan).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 16 November 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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