What is recorded here

Kilmore graveyard in County Monaghan holds a D-shaped sandstone bullaun stone with one shallow basin, partly buried at its edge. The stone is small enough to touch, yet old enough to belong before written memory. People may have knelt beside it, poured water into its hollow or marked it as sacred long before a graveyard formed around it.

A sandstone bullaun stone is partly buried inside the perimeter of Kilmore graveyard (MO009-035002-) at N. It is a flat-topped D-shaped stone (dims 0.85m x 0.8m; visible H 0.2-0.8m) with one curved edge and a single basin (dims 0.38m x 0.33m; D 0.09m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 November 2016

Likely dating to the early Christian period, the bullaun stone may have been used for ritual purposes, such as the preparation of holy water or as a site for pilgrimages. Such stones are often associated with local saints or folklore traditions in Irish landscapes.

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