What is recorded here

Doire Leathan holds a deep stone bowl cut into living rock, marking the heart of an old clustered settlement. The finished shape suggests deliberate human work rather than passive water wear, yet the absence of preserved tools or witness leaves the exact method uncertain. The nearby ruined cottage and second bullaun stone imply a repeated local practice of shaping bedrock for domestic or ceremonial use.

A sheet of rock outcrop protruding above the surface of the ground has a deep bowl (top diam. 0.3m; base diam. 0.12m; D 0.25m) carved into its surface. The bullaun stone is located in a field with the remains of a ruinous cottage a few metres to the E. On the first edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map this bullaun is located in the centre of a clochan or a clustered linear settlement. This bedrock mortar or bullaun stone appears to have been associated with this clustered settlement. A bullaun stone (DG096-037) is located in a similar clustered settlement 240m to the NNW. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010

Likely dating to the early medieval period, bullaun stones were traditionally used for grinding herbs or religious relics, and are often associated with Christian or pre-Christian ritual practices. Local folklore may link the stone to holy wells or saintly figures in the area.

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