What is recorded here

St Gobnets Stone is a large irregular rock with a deep circular hollow, sitting fifteen metres west of the Clondrohid graveyard gates. Coffins are carried around it before entering the burial ground, suggesting the stone marked the final boundary between the living and the dead. Small quartzite stones surround the bullaun, creating a crude circle that invites wonder about whether people still visit it to pour water or leave offerings for those who have gone before.

One of two bullaun stones (CO070-120----) outside gates of Clondrohid graveyard (CO070-039002-), located c. 15m to W of gates. Large irregular stone (H 0.4m; 0.5m x 0.6m) with circular hollow (diam. 0.35m; D 0.2m) on upper surface. Small hollow on SW face of stone. Small quartzite stones surround bullaun. Coffins are carried around this stone before entering graveyard. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Image provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

St Gobnet's Stone is likely associated with the early Christian period and may have had ritual or liturgical use, given the presence of a bullaun (a hollow for anointing oil or holy water). The stone may also preserve an earlier prehistoric function, and its location near a graveyard suggests a continued sacred significance through the medieval period.

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