What is recorded here

Leach-na-Poll is a submerged bullaun stone on the river bed 100m NE of Cong Abbey, bearing five regular bowl-shaped hollows averaging 0.3m across and 0.12m deep on its 2.4m by 0.6m flagstone surface. Water covers most of it now, but the hollows remain sharp enough to suggest deliberate shaping rather than random erosion. Perhaps monks or travellers knelt there before the river took the stone back, pressing their bodies into the rock until it remembered them. The water has not erased the shape; it has only hidden the place where the shape was made.

Submerged, on river bed, 100m NE of Cong Abbey (MA120-053001-). Five regular bowl-shaped hollows (av. diam. 0.3m; D 0.12m) on upper flat surface of large flagstone (L 2.4m; Wth 0.6m; T 0.4m). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 597. Date of upload: 12 December 2014

Leach-na-Poll is likely a prehistoric ritual or ceremonial site, dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, given the presence of five bowl-shaped hollows typical of ritual use such as libations or offerings. Its proximity to Cong Abbey may reflect later folklore or reuse of the site in a Christian context.

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