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Bullaun stone (present location) in Clontumpher

Bullaun stone (present location)

What is recorded here

You can still touch the hollow where a saint knelt. The stone sat hidden in a farmhouse for decades before returning to the ringfort, as if it had been waiting to be set back in the place it belonged.
In the centre of the interior of a ringfort (LF009-009----). A tiny, circular, round-bottomed hollow (diam. 0.13m; D 0.07m) has been hewn into an irregularly shaped stone. The stone was unearthed in the 1950s during the course of field-drainage works close to the ringfort (Mimnagh 2010, 406) and, for many years, was kept for safe-keeping at a farmhouse until it was moved to its present location. (Murphy 2000, 78; Mimnagh 2010, 379, 406; pers. comm. S. Mimnagh 2011) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 5 June 2013

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