What is recorded here

Monasternalea still wears its monastic name, and the bullaun stone sits inside a children's burial ground like a forgotten altar. Its shallow basin may have caught rain for prayers or held water for curses, depending on which century you believe. The boy in the adjacent grave may have been born healthy through that water or marked by it; either way the stone kept the transaction alive long after the monastery vanished.

Within the NW part of a children's burial ground (GA117-092002-). This roughly rectangular granite bullaun stone (0.68m E-W; 0.65m N-S; H 0.4m) bears a circular basin (diam. 0.2m; D 0.15m) just to the S of its centre. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 5 September 2019

Likely dating to the Early Christian or later prehistoric period, bullaun stones like Treananearla are often associated with ritual or ecclesiastical use, possibly for holy water or symbolic purification. Their presence near burial grounds may indicate a spiritual or protective function in local tradition.

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