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Anything like these elongated cupmarks? These seem to be very comon across the Wicklow mountains. No one has been able to prove that they're quarrying marks, but many think they are.

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/2427

or these?

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/63

or these?

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/55

Yes, those are the same ones - not identical but close enough certainly. There's some here too - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/12900
I have a photograph of actual quarry marks, on a free boulder, that was being broken for wall stone in the Victorian Age. The chisel pits have some rules attached which the 'boat-shaped' cups defy (usually). They're rough-edged, always along the grain of the stone, and irregular. There's a big difference. The chisel pits have a v-shaped profile whereas the cups are parallel sided.
I'll post the picture of real quarrymarks and just leave it up for a couple of days. The cup-marks also submit to Megalithic Inch analysis - those I've found (9 over three stones) are 2MI by 1MI. Nobody'd believe the last bit though.