What is recorded here

Holed Stone and Bullauns stands upright in the Roscam graveyard, its three basins facing southwest like a stack of waiting cups. Locals called both stones holy wells, treating the carved rock as a penitential station where water and memory mixed. The lower basin half-buries in soil, suggesting the stone has been drinking from the earth as long as it has given back.

This triple bullaun stone (L 1.35m; H 0.95m; T 0.34m) is located c. 1m to the SE of a double bullaun stone (GA094-072008-) in the S section of the graveyard (GA094-072003-) within the early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA094-072002-) at Roscam. It is set upright in the ground with the basins facing SW. The uppermost basin (dims. 0.43m x 0.36m) is slightly larger than the middle one (dims. 0.41m x 0.3m). The lower basin (diam. 0.37m) is partially embedded in the ground. Both bullaun stones were regarded locally as holy wells (Fahey 1901a, 229). Named on the 1944-5 revision of the OS 6-inch maps as 'Penitential Station'. The following images have been uploaded: GA094-072009-_01 Triple bullaun stone with double bullaun stone (GA094-072008-) lying flat to its left GA094-072009-_05 View from S Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 May 2017

This triple bullaun stone, associated with a holed stone, likely dates to the early Christian period and may have been used for penitential rituals or as part of a pilgrimage site. Such stones are often linked to local Christian traditions and may have had both religious and symbolic significance in the landscape.

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