I drove from Bantry via Priests Leap, which has to be one of the scariest roads on the planet. It's a single lane track with a sheer drop on one side and lots of blind summits. Never again!
Anyway, It took me a little while to find this stone, but I was determined to do so. Along with St Brigit's Stone (County Cavan) this has always drawn me to it since first seeing a picture of it in Anthony Weir's Early Ireland: A Field Guide.
This is the mother of all bullaun stones!!!!
For some reason I hadn't expected the piece of bedrock to be so large, although how I thought so many bullauns could fit onto anything smaller defeats me. There are no fewer than five large bullauns, each with their own turn-stone. Two more turn-stones rest in shallow hollows. In the centre of the rock is a stone disk with a hole drilled through it (unfortunately this has cracked in two). Standing in the hole is a 20cm tall phallic stone. People have placed coins below this in the hole.
It is located outside the churchyard to the south - just around the corner and on the north side of the road.
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