| Lisballyard - Holy Well |
I had some trouble finding this, despite it being at the roadside. Locals know it as The Knee or St. Keiran's Knee, so asking for the bullaun stone got me nowhere. Even asking for 'a stone with a bowl in it' didn't prove useful, even though I was just 100m from it at the time. This doesn't mean that the local people have forgotten about it. Once we had established what I was after I was proudly escorted by two local men and told stories of how St. Keiran came along this road and knelt here before visiting the nearby holy well. The depression in the stone is said to be his knee print.
This isn't a bullaun stone proper. It looks like a natural solution pit in a small piece of limestone. It has been used in the same way as a manmade bullaun would be, though: it is said to provide cures etc. More than that it is still revered today, which is a rarity!
Click Thumbnail to View Full Size Image
_
_All Sites Visited On 17th February 2008 « Previous Site Next Site »
A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Knocklegan (Co. Kilkenny) |  Castletown (Co. Offaly) |  Brockagh (Glendalough d) (Co. Wicklow) |
 Sevenchurches or Camaderry (Glendalough l) (Co. Wicklow) |  Inishcealtra (Co. Clare) |  St. Patrick's Stone (Co. Tipperary) |
