Cloughmore

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Cloughmore known locally as "The Big Stone" ( a direct translation from the Irish : 'clough' = stone , 'mor' = big), is a huge granite boulder (approximately 30 tons in weight), an erratic, which was probably transported from Scotland and deposited by retreating ice during the last Ice Age. However local legend has it that the stone was thrown from the Cooley Mountains by a giant Fionn McCool. Cloughmore rests about 1,000 feet above the village of Rostrevor, Northern Ireland, on a relatively flat area on the side of the mountain Slieve Martin known as "Fiddler's Green".