This earthfast 1.4m square (ish), flat topped boulder contains the deepest bullaun I have ever encountered. It is 30cm in diameter, nearly 60cm deep and like so many of the Carlow bullauns it is conical in cross-section.
The stone, is said to have wart curing properties, to take advantage of which the patient should visit the stone on three occasions. There is an old graveyard nearby and the field is known as the 'Church Field', so an old church probably stood nearby. There were traces of a wall nearby until quite recently, but these have now disappeared.
It was planned to take a new major road through this field, but some geophysics work revealed a lot of activity below the surface and so the site was left alone and the road moved elsewhere. The neighbouring field is known as 'Oldtown' and so there was probably a settlement here too.
All this illustrates quite clearly that when you come to a seemingly isolated monument in a field that what we see now tells so little of a sites heritage.
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