Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Formoyle West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Formoyle West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10526, -9.23602
- SMR number
- CL005-005003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A bullaun stone was located against the foot of a wall at Formoyle chapel (CL005-005001-) (Swinfen 1992, 26), prior to its disappearance in 1987 (Spellissy 1987, 96). A photograph, Swinfen (1992, 26), shows the bullaun to have been a rough subcircular boulder with a basin towards one edge on the top. It was described by Cunningham (1980, 29) as a shallow broken bullaun lying around the ruins.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 28 September 2021
References
Spellissy, S. 1987 Clare: county of contrasts. Ennis. Privately published.
Swinfen, A. 1992 Forgotten stones: Ancient church sites of the Burren and environs. Dublin. Lilliput Press.
Cunningham, G. 1980 Burren journey West. Shannonside Mid-Western Regional Tourism Organisation.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.