What is recorded here

Bullaun stone in Church Hill is a bullaun stone in Church Hill, County Sligo, Ireland. The moss-covered sandstone block lies about eight metres southwest of a church inside an ecclesiastical enclosure. It measures 0.8 metres by 0.6 metres and stands 0.3 metre high, with a circular bowl-shaped hollow 0.32 metres across and 0.2 metre deep in its upper surface.

In an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL032-195003-), lying on the ground c. 8m SW of the remains of a church (SL032-195001-). A moss-covered roughly rectangular sandstone block (H 0.3m; 0.8m x 0.6m) with a circular bowl-shaped depression (diam. 0.32m; D 0.2m) in its upper surface. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Probably dating to the early medieval period, this bullaun stone may have been used for ritual purposes, such as the preparation of holy water. Such stones are often associated with Christian or pre-Christian sites and may have had both religious and communal significance.

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