The story of the Doolin stone

The Legend of the Doolin Stone
The Giant of the Arran Islands argued with his wife and she rowed away from him. He picked up boulders and threw them at her to sink her boat. She managed to row all the way to Doolin. In his rage he picked up the biggest boulder he could find, threw it from the Island and it hit her. She is still buried underneath it is said!

Carraige na Loinge Bui
Stone of the Yellow Ship

In the autumn of 1588, 17 Spanish ships ran aground or sank off the Irish coast as the crippled Armada made its roundabout way home after defeat in the English Channel. Legend has it that one of them was wrecked off the coast of Doolin at a site near this stone. Located at Tiergonean and Visible for miles around, this boulder is one of hundreds of erratics scattered across the limestone pavements of the Burren, left behind by receding ice during the last ice age.

Which ever version you would like to believe, it is so much a part of the local landscape that Carraige na Loinge Bui has been adopted as an emblem by the
Doolin Saturday Market and Craft Fair.