What is recorded here

Kilquane is a children's burial ground where a basin-cut stone sits at the foot of an east-facing slope. The stone is made of red sandstone and concrete, and its shallow dish may have held water, oil or offerings for the dead. In that case the chamber becomes a kitchen of ghosts, feeding the children who never left the earth.

Situated at a children's burial ground (CL033-062001-) towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. A bullaun stone (0.7m x 0.65m; H 0.45m) of Old Red Sandstone conglomerate with a single basin (diam. 0.45m; D 0.15-0.25m). (Westropp 1917, 4) Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 19 May 2015

Probably dating to the early Christian or later prehistoric period, bullaun stones were often used for ritual purposes, such as the preparation of holy water or as part of Christian ecclesiastical practices. Their association with burial grounds may indicate a role in funerary rites or local folklore connected to the afterlife.

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