What is recorded here

No visible marker remains in Oxford townland, though the lost stone may still lie buried beneath grass or road. The tradition claims St Patrick knelt there until his knees wore the hollow, turning ordinary rock into a record of human endurance.

This record refers to a bullaun stone which Knox (1904, 173-4) attributed to Oxford townland and which he described as follows: ‘one called Gloonpatrick is at Oxford by the side of a stream where a large bullaun is in a stone sunk in the earth with a few stone built round to keep out rubbish.’ Knox (1902 188-190) also recorded the tradition, that the hollow in the stone was worn by the knees of St Patrick when he knelt to pray The exact location of this bullaun stone is unknown. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 December 2021

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