Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Ballyallaban, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyallaban
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cross
- Coordinates
- 53.08630, -9.15611
- SMR number
- CL005-095002-
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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
In the NW sector of a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-095001-), at the NW foot of a rectangular, drystone platform upon which a stone cross (CL005-095003-) is erected.
A partially exposed granite stone with a shallow, subcircular hollow (D 0.14m; diams. 0.4m by 0.36m).
See attached image: CL005-095002-_01.JPG View of bullaun at foot of platform and cross (CL005-095003-).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 20 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.