
Scuplted contours.
Scuplted contours.
With the Sugar Loaf peeping over the horizon line on the right.
December 2109.
New boots and bullaun stones.
Endlessly fascinating stone.
26/8/18
The stone seems to have escaped relatively unscathed from the recent fires.
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Detail 2
Detail 1
Study with thunderclouds.
LM offers some scale.
iphone HDR shot, 21/7/14
Sprout sups from the bullaun
2/9/06
The sleeping giant awakens
Thirsty work but worth it
Access to this is simple, 250 metres or so up a hillwalkers track at O125205 on the left-hand side of as you travel south on Military Road in the Featherbeds. For this reason I’ve been here many times, but never wrote about it until now.
Off the track about 5 metres into the peat is this wonderful stone, the connective evidence between bullauns and prehistory. There’s nowt else close by, the nearest early christian site about a mile below at St. Anne’s in the Glenasmole valley. Others have noticed an alignment here.
The stone is a big lump of granite, like a beached walrus, with 3 bullauns, 2 of which breach the south-east end. One of these two could scarcely be called a bullaun as it’s just a carved curve into the stone, but the density of the stone is very porous and all three basins seem to have eroded, and enlarged, over time.
Strangely enough, this stone is not marked on OS sheet 50, but is on archaeology.ie. I was first brought here by Fourwinds about 8 years ago.