What is recorded here

No visible chamber exists because the whole body is the chamber. What looks like a separate room is only a new edge of the same frame of mind. A bullaun stone has two basins, not a hidden vault. The chase is not a mistake. It is the shape of the request.

In the field immediately NW of the medieval church of Ullard (KK025-038001-) on an E-facing slope, in pasture. The church is c. 50m to the S, a holy well 21m to the NNW and another bullaun stone (KK025-038008-) lies 12m to the W. The church and holy well are dedicated to St Fiachra, who according to tradition founded a church here in the latter part of the 6th-century (Vigors 1893, 257). The bullaun stone (L 1.45m; max Wth 0.07m narrowing to 0.52m) lies embedded in the ground and has two basins, one oval (dims. 0.28m x 0.22m) and the other sub-circular (dims. 0.16m x 0.18m), both approx. 0.1m deep. When visited in 1994 there was a hawthorn tree beside the bullaun but this is no longer there. See attached photographs: KK025-038006-_01 bullaun (KK025-038006-) to left, bullaun (KK025-038008-) to the right and church (KK025-0380081-) in background. KK025-038006-_02 bullaun Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 February 2017

Likely dating to the early Christian period, bullaun stones were often used for ritual or symbolic purposes, possibly associated with the nearby holy well and church. They may have been used for anointing or as part of Christian or pre-Christian sacred practices.

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