What is recorded here

Bullaun stones are named for prayer and endurance, repeated kneeling or touch wearing a hollow into solid rock. In Ellagh More the hollow is barely deeper than a palm, set in a broken square block beneath a hawthorn beside an old rath. That small depth and open break suggest something human, patient and uncertain: a place where bodies returned, not where grand claims were made.

Located in the SE quadrant of rath (MA040-058----), beneath a hawthorn tree. A roughly square block of stone (0.55m x 0.5m; H 0.24m) with a central subcircular hollow (diam. c. 0.28m; D 0.15m). There is a gap or break (Wth 0.1m) in one side of the stone. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 May 2020

A bullaun stone, likely dating to the early Christian period, often associated with ritual or healing practices, possibly linked to saintly traditions or local folklore. Such stones were sometimes used for anointing or as holy wellside features.

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