Cloughmore boulder
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The boulder of Cloughmore ( Irish An Chloch Mhór - German "the big stone" ; known locally as "The Big Stone") is a block of granite that stands about 300 m above and east of the village of Rostrevor, in the Newry and Morne District, in the south of the County Down in Northern Ireland lies on the side of Slieve Martin in the Morne Mountains.
The granite block has a calculated mass of about 50 tons and is a boulder that was removed by the glaciers from an island in Strathclyde Bay in Scotland during the Ice Age .
The Cloughmore Stone is where Rostrevor residents traditionally roll their Easter eggs down the mountain at Easter.
The stone is associated with the mythical figure Finn McCool .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '26.6 " N , 6 ° 10' 46.8" W.