noun, a slab of stone, usu. engraved with an epitaph, placed upright or laid flat over a person’s grave as a memorial (COD)
“Every tombstone’s got the county in Ireland that they came from.”
“And on the tombstone it says Sarah Smith.”
“What got me was the cemetery, yeah. We got off the ferry, and there’s just great big granite rock everywhere you look, and there’s tombstones all over the side of this hill. I can’t believe they were digging in granite to bury people like. There were tombstones all over so.”