What is recorded here

One chamber is a smooth bowl cut into a small rectangular stone, half full of rainwater beside a broken lid and two upright slabs marked with a white cross. The other is a chamber with no wall, where an unseen hand may have moved a woman through darkness and brought her back to restore what she took. Bullán holds both truths at once: a little stone vessel and a living boundary that remembers being broken, waited, completed and witnessed.

In SE quadrant of burial ground (CO043-01401-). Set into the ground is a small rectangular stone (0.3m x 0.28m) with a steep-sided bowl-shaped depression (diam. 0.23m; D 0.21m) cut into it (half-filled with rainwater). Lying on grund nearby is stone lid (missing a piece) which appears to fit over the bullaun. Two upright slabs (H c. 0.8m), one with a white cross painted on it stand immediately to S c. 1.2m apart; according to O'Donoghue (1914) they formed the door into an 'ancient church', the area behind these is now heavily overgrown. On N side modern holy statue is wooden shelter. O'Donoghue (ibid) records a story of bullauns removed by a woman who was 'forced by an unseen hand at night to restore it'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2021 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/ Date of upload/revision: 06 April 2022

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