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<< Our Photo Pages >> Feaghna - Rock Art in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Kerry

Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Monday, 29 July 2013  Page Views: 9580

Rock ArtSite Name: Feaghna Alternative Name: Rolls of Butter
Country: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Kerry Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Kenmare  Nearest Village: Glengarriff
Map Ref: V966641
Discovery Map Number: D85
Latitude: 51.820144N  Longitude: 9.500287W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Feaghna
Feaghna submitted by justme : The Rolls of Butter - from above (Vote or comment on this photo)
Multiple-bullaun & phallic stone in Co. Kerry. To the south of a ruined church which is to the north of a by-road is a remarkable smooth-topped boulder with 8 hollows in it, ranging from small cup-marks to hemispherical basins about 30 cms across.

The larger ones carry oval stones latterly known as ‘butterlumps’ . These are turned in their basins in the final stages of the Easter ‘pattern’ or ‘turas’ which includes a well to the E of the church, and part of the church wall. The patrún or pattern is evidently of extreme antiquity – as indeed are most in Ireland – going back at least 2000 years. In the middle of the boulder a cylindrical stone of phallic shape stands in a circular holed stone.
About 50 m E of the bullaun, on the other side of the road, is a boulder with a flat slab on top, upon which a cross was erected in the late nineteen-sixties: Ireland is still – ineptly - being Christianised!

~ 9 kms WNW is Dromroe stone circle.

~ 12 km SSE in county Cork are Mill Little stone circle and boulder-burials.
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Feaghna
Feaghna submitted by justme : The Rolls of Butter - Quernstone detail. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Feaghna submitted by justme : The Rolls of Butter - Showing bulk. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Feaghna by Anonymous on Thursday, 08 August 2013
The word 'feaghna' in Irish means tufts of rushes.
Great website.
Thankd for everything.
Brian
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Re: Feaghna by frogcottage42 on Friday, 02 August 2013
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Just to help would be finders of this site, it has been listed as nearest village Glengarrif which is actually over a long winding mountain pass in county Cork.
The nearest village is actually Bonane and the site is to be found just a couple of miles further along the Priest's Leap road from the Bonane Heritage park.
According to the information film at near by Molly Gallivans the holes in this Bullaun have recently been compared with the seven stars nearest the bottom half of Orion and interpreted as both a reference to this and a celestial calender.
These Bullauns are commonly found in association with early Christian sites so it entirely possible that these interpretations are coincidental as there are signs that many have been moved both in antiquity and more recently so alignments are hard to prove.
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Re: Feaghna by enjaytom on Thursday, 01 August 2013
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My interpretation of the eight hollows relates to the Sun calendar: -
Sixteen months a year, eight odd numbered months, eight even numbered months. The first month was Summer, the central 'hollow' with the upright stone - signifies midsummer solstice, the Sun at its highest in the sky.
The second feature is the midwinter solstice when the Sun is at its lowest - to the south and farthest away.
The other six 'hollows' are the third month Lughnasad (harvest), the fifth month Autumn, the seventh month Samain ( Halloween), the ninth month Winter, the eleventh month Imbolc (lambing), the thirteenth month Spring, the fifteenth month Beltain (Mayday etc.).
The flat stone is a very important Sun calendar "Show & Tell" mnemonic for the seasons, the epitome of the sixteen month calendar.
Knowth passage mound kerb stone K15 has a line of eight hoops alongside a continuous line - indicating there were eight events in a sixteen month year.
The Feagha stone warrants a major rescue effort. Tell the world. See ISBN 9780987213532 for a full account and analysis
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    Re: Feaghna by tiompan on Thursday, 01 August 2013
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    The " continuous line on K15 stops short of all the "hoops" which are more commonly and more accurateky described as arcs .In the case of K15 there are three different motifs associated with the line , four single arcs two double arcs and one short sertpentiform .If these motifs were considered representative of some thing we might imagine it would be of three separate "things" not one , as suggested .Further , as arcs are the most common motif found in passage grave art it is possible to find examples where the single type is found exclusively ,surely this would be a more approprite choice for one representation ?
    George
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Re: Feaghna by justme on Thursday, 25 July 2013
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In the townland of Garranes, Kenmare. The Rolls of Butter is a special example of what is called in Ireland a bullaun stone. A bullaun is a boulder with an artificial, cup-shaped, indentation which holds water. The hollow may have been formed by rotating a stone within the hollow repeatedly over a long period or may have been deliberately hewn. These bullauns are often associated with church sites although they probably predate the churches by some time. Some appear to have been moved to church sites and sometimes incorporated as holy water containers. Most only have one hollow in them, they are very common in West Cork where I live and are often called Wart Wells.
The Rolls of Butter is unusual in having multiple hollows. The broken holed stone holding the phallic stone is a broken quern stone.
Description from archaeology.ie:
In pasture, on the lower S-facing slopes of Barrerneen. A subrectangular stone (2.1m x 2m; H 1m) with seven bowl-shaped hollows (diam. 0.05-0.4m; D 0.02-0.13m) on its upper surface. Each hollow contains a smooth oval stone. These stones are known locally as 'butter lumps' (Bigger 1898, 321; Harbison 1991, 224-6). The bullaun stone is known locally as 'The Petrified Dairy' and formed part of the 'rounds' at the holy well, Tobarfeaghna (KE102-038004-), which is c. 60m to the NE. A fragment of a quernstone, with a long oval stone inserted into its central perforation, lies at the centre of the bullaun stone. According to Bigger (ibid.), the quernstone fragment was found in a neighbouring field and was unrelated to the other stones. A church (KE102-038001-) and burial ground (KE102-038002-) are c. 70m and c. 20m to the N, respectively. There is another bullaun stone (KE102-038005-) c. 35m to the S.
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Re: Feaghna by Anonymous on Tuesday, 25 June 2002
We recently found this site and were told these were "Cursing Stones" with several local versions of their origins and meaning.
Would appreciate some knowledge on this.
Russ Miller (russmiller@bigpond.com)
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