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FourWinds wrote:
This stone (one of many at Castleruddery) shows that they can't be for splitting the stone as they run down two sides. You justt wouldn't split such a small stone in that way
This may add a bit of fuel to the debate:

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/51033

Item no. 228 in the Arch. inventory of Co Louth "At least ten cup and ring devices and a chaeqered type motif occur on a rock outcrop."

There were at least 20 cups but not cup and ring devices. There could be more, but some particularly bollickey bullocks weren't too happy that we were in their field.

Andy

Cool! In that area you may not have found the stone in the inventory, but stumbled across another one. You did well to find anything around there. Masses of stuff in Louth was dynamited in the 1980s with land improvement grants!

It's amazing that when someone brings up an odd subject like this allsorts of bits start popping up.

That photo can't be the stone described, surely?

(Or rather it could, but the description could be a severe case of over-imagination.)