Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Keelhilla, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keelhilla
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08478, -9.00278
- SMR number
- CL006-023006-
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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
One of a number of ecclesiastical monuments (CL006-023001- to CL006-023009-) in an overgrown sheltered location at the foot of the rockface that forms the E side of Slievecarran. Hazel scrub has encroached over all the area and all the stones are covered in thick moss. 10m N of a natural cave known as ‘St Mac Duagh’s Bed’ (CL006-023004-) is a large outcropping rock (1.9m E-W; 1m N-S; H 0.9m) with a circular bowl-shaped hollow (0.2m x 0.19m; D 0.1m) near the top. A second, oval-shaped hollow exists c. 0.35m to the E on the same rock. This is likely to be what Westropp (1900-02, 134) referred to as ‘a large bullaun in the natural rock’.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL006-023006-_01.jpg Bullaun in large outcropping rock.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 13 October 2014
References
Westropp, T.J. 1900-02 The churches of Co. Clare and the origin of the ecclesiastical divisions in that county. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Series 3, vol. 6, 100-180.
Nearby in the register
- Hermitageunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.