This week, unsure of what the weather was going to do we took a safer option and visited Kilbroney Park, Co.Down, N.Ireland. The lovely C.S.Lewis trail is still closed due to COVID 19 restrictions, along with the cafe, toilets and mountain biking trails so the park was quieter than normal. We were keen to keep up our hill walking so had ‘The big stone’ or ‘Cloughmore’ in mind.
We set off from the Kilbroney Carpark but found it difficult to know where the track began. After asking for advise in the Cloughmore centre we realised there was a Carpark much further up the mountain. Myself, Lj and the little ones decided to take the car up, while the others trekked on foot.
From the second Carpark it is a short but steep walk to the stone. At the top we had fun playing hide n seek while we waited for the others to join us.
Local Folklore claims it (the big stone) was thrown here by Finn Mac Cool during a fight with a Scottish Giant. During the same battle, the Scottish Giant allegedly tore out a handful of earth and flung it back at Finn, which missed. The earth landed in the sea and became the Isle of Man while the divot he made, filled up with water and became Lough Neagh. https://www.visitmournemountains.co.uk/Products/Kilbroney-Park
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