Bullaun stones are boulders or rock faces bearing one or more cup-shaped depressions, and they appear across Ireland in association with early ecclesiastical sites, holy wells, and places of persistent, informal devotion. Their exact function is debated, but many remained in use for centuries as focal points for prayer or folk ritual, which may explain why this one found a home within a later place of worship.

The chapel itself belongs to the category of penal-era structures, modest, often semi-subterranean buildings put up during the eighteenth century when Catholic worship operated under legal restriction and congregations met in whatever shelter they could quietly construct or adapt. This particular example was noted by Cunningham in 1980, who recorded both the chapel ruins and the bullaun stone within them. When the site was inspected again in 1997, the building had collapsed entirely and become heavily overgrown. The bullaun stone, whether removed, buried under debris, or simply obscured by vegetation, could no longer be found.

What remains is essentially a double absence: a ruined chapel that has since vanished further into the hillside, and a stone that was already lost within those ruins more than two decades ago. The site is a reminder of how quickly features can disappear once a structure loses its roof and the ground begins to reclaim it.