What is recorded here

Knockaculleen holds a bullaun stone beside the graveyard entrance, its shallow basin worn smooth by generations of kneeling. The stone is half-swallowed by grass and shadow, but the depression remains clear enough to imagine bare feet pressing into it during fever, rain or fear. It is not a display piece. It is a place where the body bent, repeated itself and handed suffering back to the earth.

Located in the SW, and oldest part, of Moygawnagh graveyard (MA029-005002-), adjacent to gap or entrance in the NE wall of a rectangular grave enclosure. The stone is embedded in the ground surface, engulfed by overgrowth, and can not be fully examined. It consists of a roughly oblong stone block (L at least 1m; Wth c. 0.7m; H c. 0.3m). In the upper surface of the stone there is an oblong depression (L c. 0.56m; Wth 0.3m; D c. 0.2m) with quite vertical sides. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 July 2013

Likely dating to the early Christian period, the bullaun stone may have been used for ritual purposes, such as the preparation of holy water. Such stones are often associated with sacred or ecclesiastical sites and may have had both religious and symbolic significance in local tradition.

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