What is recorded here

Maulinward is a living memory where Durrus Church still stands in ruins and the Bullaun stone accepts coins. The smooth stone sits in the southern wall beside a human cranium, a cross and a rosary, turning worship into a small crowded chamber. People still place money in its shallow bowl, trusting that the dead and the living share the same address.

A smooth, sub-rectangular stone (0.25m x 0.3m) with a small bowl shaped bullaun (diam. 0.13m; D 0.05m) at its centre which has been set into a gap in the southern wall of Durrus Church CO131-007002), now in ruins. This bullaun is still venerated and it is full of coins deposited in its bowl. There are also some religious statues, a cross and a rosary. Immediately next to it is a fragment of cranium also used for offerings. Compiled by: Tony Miller Date of upload: 6 February 2015

Likely dating to the early Christian period (5th–10th century AD), the bullaun stone may have been used for ritual purposes, such as the preparation of holy water or as a pilgrim stone. Such stones are often associated with church sites and may have had both religious and healing connotations in local tradition.

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