| Kilbunny - Bullaun Stone |
The ruins of this lovely little 11th Century church stand in a small graveyard beneath a yew tree and Scotts Pine.
The main attraction here (apart from saying you've been to Kilbunny!) is the Romanesque doorway. This isn't spectacular, but it is nice. Mounted in the wall to one side of the door is a dragon's head, which has lost one nostril and an ear. It is unlikely that there was just one such head (see The Nun's Church (County Offaly)), which means the decoration was probably much grander than it now appears to have been.
The 'bunny' part of Kilbunny is probably one of the worst transliterations of an Irish name there is, because it is actually a perversion of Munna the name of the saint associated with the church.
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