A huge boulder which was believed to have washed up on a pier in Gweedore has now disappeared.
The boulder landed at Port Arthur on Saturday morning after a night of incredibly stormy seas.
Photo: Micheál Choilm Mac Giolla Easbuig
A sign of the force of nature, the rock very quickly became a local attraction. People visited to take pictures and some labelled it “the new Bád Eddie” – after the shipwreck at Bunbeg beach.
Others theorised if the legendary Fionn Mac Cumhaill himself threw it there!
By Tuesday, the stone had been removed. It is not yet known who towed it away.
Port Arthur. Photo: Micheál Choilm Mac Giolla Easbuig
Local councillor Micheál Choilm Mac Giolla Easbuig believes it was not the work of the council. He said: “At the end of the day it is a stone, but I would have liked for it to stay so that the community could decide what they wanted to do with it.
“I found it very interesting and powerful that the sea was able to move a boulder of such size. I initially asked the council to get it moved, but then I asked them to wait and see what the poeple wanted.
“You could have turned it into a piece of art or a memorial to lives lost at sea. It would have been interesting to give it that time to allow people to have that conversation.”