Where in Ireland is the Barney Stone?

Question

Where in Ireland is the Barney Stone?

Answer 1

The Blarney stone is in Blarney which is close to Cork city in the south of Ireland.

Answer 2

In Cork boy! (You'll understand if you ever get there. And yes- it's The Blarney Stone!)

Answer 3

I think you mean Blarney, but it's just outside Cork city. I wouldn't kiss it either if I were you

Answer 4

good answer mr. bellows. you took the words right out of my mouth. actually it might be dublin.

Answer 5

Five miles north west of the small city of Cork is the village of Blarney - its name being derived from the Irish An blarna meaning 'the plain'. Near the village, standing almost 90 feet in height, is the solidly built castle of Blarney. Cormac MacCarthy erected the present castle, the third constructed at the site, in 1446. Built on a rock, above several caves, the tower originally had three storeys. On the top storey, just below the battlements on the parapet, is the world famous Blarney Stone, said to give the gift of eloquence to all who kiss it. Kissing the stone is for some people a difficult physical feat. In past times, to kiss the Stone people were hung by their heels over the edge of the parapet. One day a pilgrim broke from the grasp of his friends and went hurtling downward to certain death. Since that time the stone has been kissed by another method. First, you sit with your back towards the stone and then someone sits upon your legs or firmly holds your feet. Next, leaning far back and downward into the abyss while grasping the iron rails, you lower yourself until your head is even with the stone to be kissed.

Just how long this custom has been practiced or how it originated is not known. One local legend claims that an old women, saved from drowning by a king of Munster, rewarded him with a spell, that if he would kiss a stone on the castle's top, he would gain a speech that would win all to him. It is known, however, when and how the word Blarney entered the English language and the dictionary. During the time of Queen Elizabeth I, Dermot McCarthy, the ruler of the castle, was required to surrender his fortress to the Queen as proof of his loyalty. He said he would be delighted to do so, but something always happened at the last moment to prevent his surrender. His excuses became so frequent and indeed so plausible that the official who had been demanding the castle in the name of the Queen became a joke at the Court. Once, when the eloquent excuses of McCarthy were repeated to the Queen, she said "Odds bodikins, more Blarney talk!"  The term Blarney has thus come to mean 'the ability to influence and coax with fair words and soft speech without giving offense'. Echoing the power of the stone, an Irish bard of the early nineteenth century, Francis Sylvester Mahony, wrote:

    There is a stone there,

    That whoever kisses,

    Oh, he never misses

    To grow eloquent.

    'Tis he may clamber

    To a lady's chamber,

    Or become a member

    Of Parliament.

Answer 6

The Blarney Stone is located at the Blarney Castle in Ireland.  Here is a web site with more info:

http://www.iol.ie/~discover/blarney.htm#...

Answer 7

The Barney stone in located in the quaint media village of

Pukane-Baley  on Shannon , locally known as P.B.S.

Near the village , standing almost  2286 cm ( 90'') cubed is the

large stone edifice affectionately known as the Barney stone.

Made of a locally extracted purple sandstone , the stone, over

  time has worn in spots to vaguely resemble a cartoon

dinosaur. Children flock to this monument and are entertained

for hours by this inanimate  lifeless lump , much to the chagrin

of everyone but their parents.

Legend has it that kissing the Barney stone gives one the

gift of speaking  Barney or rather, it renders  the kisser mute.

From then on the person can mearly stand awkwardly and

gesture in a stiff manner in  the general direction of ...

whatever.

Needless to say ,the Irish avoid it at all costs

as this would spell a fate worse than death.

Answer 8

Its not Barney its Blarney Stone nd its in Co.Cork! Hope dis helps!

Answer 9

I don't know where it is but I do nkow it's  Blarney with an L

Answer 10

there is no stone dedicated to a giant g*y purple dinosaur in my homeland!!!

Answer 11

It is BLARNEY STONE!!!!! and I do not know.

Answer 12

Oh, those comments where just to funny. Mindfeeder, SoBrien, Mr. Bellows, and Celia17 are the best. In Blarney castle near Cork city

Answer 13

The Blarney Stone is at Blarney castle, in Blarney (that's a small town) in County Cork (south-west Ireland)