What is recorded here

Killinaboy is a small townland in County Clare where a double bullaun stone still sits in rough grass beside the road. The limestone boulder carries two round water hollows close together, and people have long associated such marks with prayer, patience or the hidden life of fields. They appeared after field clearance, suggesting the land had kept them hidden rather than lost. To touch the stone is to meet a place where human time, water and rock continue an old conversation.

Situated c. 120m S of Killinaboy Church (CL017-020001-) in a field of rough grass on the W side of the road. A double bullaun stone found subsequent to field clearance (Killinaboy History and Heritage Group 2014, 68). A mound of field clearance material including very large stones lies c. 90m W of the bullaun. The stone is an irregularly shaped, earthfast, limestone, boulder (0.98m x 0.88m) with two circular, water-filled hollows on its upper surface. Each hollow is round at the base with sloping sides. The W hollow (diam. at top 0.24m; D 0.16m) and the E hollow (diam. at top 0.27m; D 0.17m) are 0.13m apart. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 3 February 2015

Likely dating to the early Christian period (5th–10th century AD), bullaun stones were often used for ritual purposes, such as anointing or as holy water basins, and may have been associated with local saints or pilgrimage traditions. The presence of a double bullaun suggests a possible link to Christian or pre-Christian ritual practice.

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