What is recorded here

Bullaun stones mark places where monks fasted until their knees wore the rock smooth. In Druming, two hollows still hold that shape inside a conifer plantation beside an old ringfort. One remains oval and deep enough to catch rain; the other has lost a chunk, as if time itself took a bite. The monk is gone, the ringfort has no keeper, and the trees have closed around the place like a fist. Yet the stone still shows the pressure of a human body held steady against hunger and cold.

Within a plantation of coniferous trees, c. 12m to the SW of a ringfort (LF019-068001-). An irregularly shaped limestone boulder contains two depressions. One is oval shaped (D 0.7m; 0.35m x 0.24m). The other was apparently originally similar in size but a considerable portion of it has broken off. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 6 June 2013

Likely dating to the early medieval period, the bullaun stone may have been used for ritual or symbolic purposes, possibly associated with the nearby ringfort. Such stones are often linked to Christian or pre-Christian traditions, including the preparation of holy water or as markers of sacred sites.

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