Cloughmore

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Cloughmore, known locally as "The Big Stone", (Irish: An Chloch Mhór, the big stone[1]), is a huge granite boulder found about 1,000 feet above the village of Rostrevor, County Down, Northern Ireland,[2] on a relatively flat area on the side of Slieve Martin mountain, known as Fiddler's Green.

[edit] Features

The granite boulder (approximately 30 tons in weight), is an erratic, which was probably transported from Scotland (from an island in Strathclyde bay[3]) and deposited by retreating ice during the last Ice Age.[2]

[edit] Legend

Local legend has it that the stone was thrown from the Cooley Mountains, on the other side of Carlingford Lough, by the giant Fionn mac Cumhaill.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Cloughmore. Ulster Placenames - County Down. Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
  2. ^ a b c Cloughmore (Big Stone). Cloughmore Male Voice Choir. Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
  3. ^ Drumlin Country (by John McCullagh). The Newry Journal (22 April 2004). Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
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