Type: Bullaun Stone
Townland: An Gróbh, Dingle
Impressive bullaun stone called ‘The Holy Stone of Dingle’ lying on the northern side of Goat Street at the junction with Chapel Lane in the town of Dingle, Co. Kerry. Large boulder, measuring 3.48m long by 0.87m wide, with 7 large circular-shaped depressions (bullán/ballán/cup-shaped hollow).
In 1845 a visitor to Dingle recorded a local tradition that; ‘Saint Patrick placed it there to contain holy water, until the adjacent church [Chapel Lane], which was being built, should be completed.
That chapel is entirely gone-no trace of it left except part of one end wall, while the sacred stone still remains, and still there is the hollow for the blessed water, now only filled from the fountains of the sky’.
In 1884 another tradition recorded that there were; ‘six remarkable stone pillars (KE043-213) one mile west of Dingle, called Gol-Tán (the crying of the host). Three of these remain erect, two lie as they have fallen [KE043-214], and the sixth has been removed into Dingle, and is called “The Holy Stone”.