What is recorded here

Bullaun stones mark the edge of human memory, where prayer or hunger first touched rock. In Cloonameragaun the stone survives the forgetting, carrying the shape of hands that are no longer named. It does not need a date to be true. What it records is the moment mortality stopped being abstract and became something a body could hold.

This irregular unworked granite bullaun stone (L c. 0.5m; Wth c. 0.5m) was originally located in the graveyard (GA086-124002-) in Kilconnell village. The bowl (L 0.32m; Wth 0.27m; D 0.17m) is set off centre. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 November 2016

Likely dating to the early Christian period, bullaun stones were often used for ritual purposes, such as anointing or as holy water basins in monastic or ecclesiastical settings. Their placement in graveyards suggests a spiritual or protective function, possibly linked to local Christian traditions or earlier pre-Christian beliefs.

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