Local tradition holds that these hollows are the knee prints of St Attracta, left behind where the early medieval saint knelt in prayer. The stone is modest to look at, easy to walk past, and that is precisely what makes it so quietly arresting.

St Attracta is one of the lesser-known figures of Irish early Christianity, associated with a cluster of sacred sites in Connacht. At Temple, the landscape around this farmhouse carries several traces of her presence: a church and graveyard lie roughly forty metres to the northeast of the stone, and a holy well dedicated to the saint sits around two hundred metres to the southwest. The stone itself is sandstone, measuring about twenty-eight centimetres in length, tapering from twenty-six centimetres wide at one end to eighteen at the other. It rests, as it has presumably rested for some time, against the farmhouse wall. The tradition attached to it is specific and firm: the stone belongs in the vicinity of the graveyard, and moving it brings bad luck. More striking still is the belief that the stone will always find its way back, regardless of where it is taken. Stories of self-returning sacred objects appear in Irish folklore in connection with relics and holy stones at other sites, suggesting that this tradition at Temple is part of a wider pattern of belief around objects understood to have a fixed and inalienable home.