What is recorded here
Part of exhibition display, Visitor Centre (30 August 2005). Described by Healy as a stone located outside St. Kevin's Church (WI023-009----) and measuring '0.77m x 0.6m x 0.23m, 1 basin, diam. 0.29m x 0.31m x depth 0.14m. The bottom of the basin is off centre' (Healy 1972, 108) Listed by Leask as No. 38 in his guidebook to Glendalough (Leask 1950, 49).
Date of upload: 21 November 2012
Likely dating to the early Christian period, the bullaun stone may have been used for ritual purification or as a pilgrim's stone, associated with St. Kevin's Church and local Christian traditions. Such stones often held spiritual significance and were sometimes linked to healing practices or penitential rites.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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