Somewhere in the coniferous plantations of Loughdeheen, a bullaun stone has gone missing. Bullauns are boulders or stones bearing one or more rounded, cup-like depressions, hollowed out either by human hand or natural weathering, and they appear frequently at early Christian sites across Ireland, often associated with healing, cursing, or ritual use. The one recorded here was noted in published sources as recently as around 1985, but subsequent visits have found no trace of it, leaving behind only the question of where it went.

The loss is the strangest detail in an already quietly remarkable place. Tucked into a west-facing slope and left unplanted within the surrounding commercial forestry, an early ecclesiastical enclosure survives in a kind of accidental preservation. Within the enclosure, a rectangular enclosure sits against the inner face of the eastern bank, and inside that are the foundations of a two-cell building, the kind of modest paired structure common to early Irish monastic settlements. The bullaun was first recorded by Power in 1952 and was still present, or at least still traceable, when Carroll noted it in 1985. At some point after that it disappeared, whether removed, buried, or simply overlooked in the encroaching tree cover is not recorded.