What is recorded here

In 1641, a craftsman cut a date into dense stone and set it within a building in Cully. The structure fell into ruin, the stone reappeared in Derrymore House, and people later moved it again to line the fire at the Blue Ball pub. It has changed owners and rooms but keeps the same marked surface, carrying a forgotten building into an ordinary room where flame still touches it.

According to local kowledge this stone was removed from its original location at Cully (OF024-001----). It is now incorporated into the fire surround at the Blue Ball pub nearby (OF024-002----). The stone is inscribed with the date '1641' and is dressed with pocked stone tooling very similar to the doorway of Srah castle. The locals said that it came from Derrymore House a 19th century townland house which had acquired it from the 17th century building (OF024-001----) in the nearby townland of Cully, that is depicted as the 'Convent in Ruins' on the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 10 December 2012

Dated to the early medieval period, the inscribed stone likely served a commemorative or territorial function. Its relocation to the Blue Ball pub suggests local reverence or folklore associated with the stone’s original site.

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