What is recorded here

No human body, no visible wound, only a shallow hollow worn smooth by generations of touching. The stone moved from the medieval tower at Lusk to outside St Macculin's modern church, carrying its quiet reputation with it. People may have pressed palms into it during fever, birth, fear or ordinary despair, believing repetition could draw out what medicine could not name.

This bullaun stone now lies outside entrance to St Macculin's modern R.C. church. It was the stone which formerly lay inside the tower of the medieval church (DU008-010004-) at Lusk. Hunt (1974, 146) recorded that; 'Within the tower is a 17th century font, bullaun stone and portion of a fireplace removed from Bremore castle, decorated in false relief with six shields bearing arms surrounding the Annunciation (Roe 1979, 140)'. It may be the stone which formerly lay beside St Macculin's well (DU008-010007-) (Ó Danachair 1958, 73). Cross-reference with DU008-010001- Compiled and Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 July 2023

This bullaun stone likely dates to the early medieval period and may have had a ritual or Christian significance, possibly used for anointing or as a holy site. Its relocation to the entrance of St Macculin's church suggests continued veneration or symbolic importance.

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