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Bullaun stone

Formoyle West, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone, Formoyle West, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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