Fionn Mac Cumhal's stone, or the Split Rock of Easkey. The stone can be found in the field directly across the road from Easkey National School.

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Fionn's Stone is a large boulder in a field near Easky, said to have been cast here by Fionn Mac Cumhal from the Ox Mountains. Angered that his throw did not reach the sea, he thumped the stone and split it, hence it's other name, the Split Rock. Local tradition says that if you walk through the crack three times, it will snap shut on you! The Easkey river valley has a large number of megalithic remains on the northern slopes of the Ox Mountains. Many of these court cairns and dolmens are known as griddles, or giants griddles, and all are, associated with Fionn and the Fianna - probably their cooking sites. Below is the Giant's Griddle, a fine dolmen at Tawnatruffan up the Easkey River.