What is recorded here

Bullaun stones in Ireland are often called priest holes because local story links them to confession and hidden worship. In Glebe, Kilconnell, the granite bowl sits off centre in an irregular stone, as if the hand or water that shaped it never intended a tidy answer. A person could have knelt beside it in darkness, speaking through a hole rather than to another human being. The stone does not claim to understand; it gives the tongue a place to leave the body for a moment.

This irregular unworked granite bullaun stone (L c. 0.5m; Wth c. 0.5m) was originally located in the graveyard (GA086-124002-) in Kilconnell village. The bowl (L 0.32m; Wth 0.27m; D 0.17m) is set off centre. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 November 2016

Likely dating to the early Christian period (5th–10th centuries AD), bullaun stones were often used for ritual or ecclesiastical purposes, such as anointing or as holy water basins. They are commonly associated with monastic sites and may have had both Christian and pre-Christian symbolic significance.

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