St. Patricks Stone (Site of) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

No stone is left to touch, only the memory of a granite bowl that held water in Galway grassland. People called it St Patrick's Chair before it vanished from the landscape, perhaps swallowed by soil or taken elsewhere. The nearby well still marks the holy water connection, suggesting the area remained a place of drinking, ritual or belief long after the stone disappeared.

In gently undulating grassland. Described in 1937 as 'St. Patrick's Chair. Granite' (Topgr. Files, NMI) but marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1946) as 'Site of', suggesting that nothing of it then remained. According to local tradition, the stone was called 'St Patrick's Bowl', was trough-like in appearance, and contained water. No visible surface trace survives; possibly a bullaun. St Patrick's Well (GA087-088----) lies 500m to NNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

St. Patrick's Stone is traditionally associated with the patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick, and is believed to mark a site where he may have rested or performed a holy act. The stone's designation as "St. Patrick's Chair" suggests a link to early Christian pilgrimage or ritual practices, though no physical remains of the site are known to survive.

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