The cemetery was 'done up' between 1999 and 2001. This massive bullaun stone would have made an impressive 'centre piece' but instead it is pushed up against the wall, out of the way, just inside the gate. Perhaps it has always been there, but I doubt it. I presume it originally stood nearer to the stream that runs 300m to the west.
This is not a pretty stone. It is a large flat-topped lump of conglomerate - a very unsuitable stone for a bullaun. Looks like a megalithic scab with holes in, to be brutally honest. Large fisures run through it and even through some of the bullauns themselves. The stone is 1.5m in length, about 1m across and 50cm thick. Two very large (30cm+ diam) bullauns are intact, while three others break the edge of the stone, one of these is barely discernable.
Only the bullaun nearest to the wall was holding water when I arrive, but the other complete one proved capable of holding water too, as did two of the others ... just.
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Brockagh (Glendalough e) (Co. Wicklow) |  Myshall (Co. Carlow) |  Brockagh (Glendalough d) (Co. Wicklow) |
 Donaghmore (Co. Tyrone) |  Kelshamore 3 (Co. Wicklow) |  Kildreenagh (Co. Carlow) |
