Rockrich wrote:
I'd go quarrying there FW.
And you'd (probably) be wrong :-) They're very common throughout County Wicklow sites
http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/116
http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/55
http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/63
http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/6480 (these ones are old enough to have folklore about them)
http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/2427
They are far too evenly spaced and of equal size for them to be quarrying marks. And, as stonelifter says. why go to all that (very precise) trouble and not break the stone?
This one makes no sense at all - http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/57 - Why that pattern of marks to break a stone?