What is recorded here

Bullaun stones mark wells, graves and repeated human touch, but this one sits in a Kerry roadside fence with a small bowl carved or worn into its top. It may have stood in the Temple Feaghna graveyard before being moved into the fence, carrying the memory of Tobarfeaghna into an ordinary boundary. The stone is not grand, yet it preserves the shape of devotion: a cupped place where water, prayer or tears could gather.

In a roadside fence, on the S side of the road leading to Temple Feaghna church and graveyard (KE102-038001-, KE102-038002-). A stone with a bowl-shaped hollow (diam. 0.2m; D 0.08m) on its upper surface is set into the side of the fence. According to local information, this bullaun stone was once in the graveyard and was part of the rounds associated with the nearby holy well, Tobarfeaghna (KE102-038004-). Another bullaun stone (KE102-038003-) lies c. 35m to the N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Likely dating to the early Christian or Bronze Age period, bullaun stones were often used for ritual purposes, such as the preparation of holy water or as part of ceremonial practices. In folklore, they are sometimes associated with saintly figures or healing traditions.

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