What is recorded here

Killoughternane holds a granite bollar with a shallow circular hollow, marking it as a bullaun stone beside a holy well in County Carlow. The small depression may have received prayer, water or the pressure of a kneeling body, while the hedge and well kept the place familiar to local memory. Its size is modest, but its shape suggests repeated human attention rather than ordinary stone work.

Irregular shaped granite boulder (max. L 0.83m; max. Wth 0.63m) with single shallow hollow (diam. 0.28m; D 0.16m), in hedge E of holy well (CW019-049001-). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

Likely dating to the early Christian or medieval period, the bullaun stone was traditionally used for ritual purposes, often associated with holy wells and saintly traditions. The hollow may have been used for anointing or as a receptacle for offerings linked to local Christian or pre-Christian healing practices.

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