Inscribed stone, Tollymore Park, Newcastle, Co Down

Inscribed granite boulder and slab/block set on the N side of the path to the N bank of the Shimna River, within Tollymore Park. The boulder is relatively small (less than a metre in all directions) and appears to have been worked slightly. Its S face is inscribed ‘River Drive 1868’ with a letter ‘R’ surnmounted by a coronet above this (the monogram of the Earls of Roden). In front of the boulder there lies a slightly larger slab/block of granite, which, taken along with the boulder, has the appearance of an informal ‘bench’. A short distance to to the W of this ensemble is a much larger boulder (known as the ‘River Drive Rock’) which is inscribed ‘Stop, look around and praise the name of Him who made it all’.