What is recorded here

Bullán is a bullaun stone in County Cork, Ireland. It lies at the south side of an early ecclesiastical enclosure, just inside the bank and west of a burial ground. The irregular stone measures 1.1 metres by 0.6 metres and holds a central hollow twenty-four centimetres wide and nineteen centimetres deep. People may have knelt beside it, poured water into it or marked it during rituals, but no surviving account names that use.

At S side of early ecclesiastical enclosure (13874), just inside bank and to W of burial ground (14069). Irregular stone (1.1m x 0.6m) with hollow (diam. 0.24m; D 0.19m), roughly centrally placed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Likely dating to the early Christian period, this standing stone may have had a ritual or commemorative function, possibly linked to the nearby ecclesiastical and burial sites. The hollow in the stone could have been used for offerings or as a font for holy water.

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