Caam Stone

Yola

Proper noun

Caam Stone

1. A curiously shaped upright piece of granite rock, somewhat in shape like an S, about eight feet high.
   • 1927, “LAMENT OF A WIDOW”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 5:

     An Brogeen ee-dreut in a well o Caam Stone.

     And 'Brogeen' drowned in the well of Camstone.

References

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 130