
The stone at the back of the glade
The stone at the back of the glade
The basin on the right is one of the widest I’ve seen
The 3 basin bullaun
The first one you come across in the glade
I was accompanied down to these stones by Richard Moody, the son of the landowner, an enthusiastic youngfella with a pride about the antiquities on his dad’s land. Thanks Richard!
Seeing them elsewhere on the net hadn’t prepared me for the size of the stones. The 3 basin bullaun is huge and the single at the back of the copse is bulky. Richard said that his dad plants a tree down here every once in a while and that the site used to be a monastery. I’d been over at Brittas earlier where mother nature is beginning to swallow the important bullauns there – it was good to see that these are in good hands in their own protected little area.