Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Tyredagh Upper, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tyredagh Upper
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.88746, -8.80131
- SMR number
- CL027-041----
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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
On a gentle ESE-facing slope, in rough pasture, c. 14m to NE of a tertiary road. Not depicted on any OS historic mapping. Noted by Westropp (1917, 11) and identified and photographed on www.megalithomania.com in 2003 (http://www.megalithomania.com/show/site/866/tyredagh_lower_bullaun_stone.htm, accessed 27 November 2018). A weathered bullaun stone (1m N-S; 0.82m E-W; H 0.51m) pear-shaped in plan. A very well-formed, roughly circular basin (0.36m N-S; 0.4m E-W; D 0.17m) occupies the S half of the stone. A much shallower but very smooth depression (0.32m N-S; 0.35m E-W; D 3cm) is c. 5cm to N. The stone is covered in lichens across the upper surface and mosses around the edge, where there are some rough solution marks and hairline fissures.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL027-041----_01.jpg View of bullaun stone from W.
CL027-041----_02.jpg From W. General view of bullaun in landscape context.
CL027-041----_03.jpg Vertical view of bullaun stone.
CL027-041----_04.jpg General view of bullaun stone from N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 27 November 2018
References
Westropp, T. J. 1917 Notes on the primitive remains (forts and dolmens) in central County Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 47, 1-20.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.