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Kilmalkedar : Bullaun Stone

CountyKerry
Grid RefQ 401 063
GPSQ 40133 06277 (5m)
Longitude10° 20' 16.17" W
Latitude52° 11' 6.79" N
Nearest TownBallyferriter (5.1 Km)
OS Sheet70
UTM zone29U
UTM x408539.23058499
UTM y5782482.7179327

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Kilmalkedar - Church
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Visit Notes

Saturday, 26th May 2007

If you walk a short way along the road to the west of teh church yard you come to a gate on the righthand side of the road with a kissing gate to one side. If you look across the field you will see a Fogra sign and the top of a piece of rock. You will not see a signpost!

The piece of rock is a massive, earthfast boulder some 2.5m x 2.5m. In the top of this is a group of the largest bullauns I have seen. One of them is nearly 50cm across!

There are six basins in all. The three largest form a line roughly, but not quite, across the middle of the stone. The three others are set to one side. Compared with the large ones one of these is just a baby - one of those shallow bullauns that look unfinished.

Why isn't this site signposted? It's wonderful!

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