What is recorded here

St. Kierans Bush is a hawthorn south of the church where people tied rags for healing, while a flagstone at its base holds hollow marks that tradition claims are the knee and hand prints of St Kieran. The bush and stone belong to the pattern walked on St Kieran’s day in County Offaly, a route that turns prayer into movement and memory into muscle. Each station gives the body a share of the ceremony, and each rag adds another life to the place.

Hawthorn bush known locally as 'St Kierans Bush' with rags attached for curative purposes located to the S of St Kierans church and graveyard (OF039-003001-). At the base of the bush there is a flagstone known as St Kierans Stone (OF039-005001-) with hollow depressions which according to local tradition that these are the kneeprints and handprints of St Kieran. One of the stations on the pattern held on St Kieran's day. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

St. Kieran is a 6th-century Irish saint associated with the founding of monastic sites, particularly in Leinster; the hawthorn bush and stone at Clonmore are linked to local traditions of healing and votive offerings, with rags hung as part of a folk practice seeking physical or spiritual cure. The flagstone, known as "St Kierans Stone," may mark a ritual or burial site connected to early Christian worship.

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