Holestone, county Antrim

J 242 907 - Sheet 14

Nearest village: Doagh

A circular, chamfered hole some 10 cms in diameter at groin height was made by boring from both sides of the slab,
as is usual in such monuments.

A circular, chamfered hole some 10 cms in diameter at groin height was made by boring from both sides of the slab,
as is usual in such monuments.
In a significant degeneration of early progenerative practices lovers plighted their troth
by passing a white handkerchief through the hole.
This stone is echoed by another, larger slab with a similar groin-height hole,
straight across the North Channel at Crows in Galloway. 

click on the picture to see another fine holed stone