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Bullaun stone

Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone, Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, 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
Inishcaltra Or Holy Island
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.91583, -8.44832
SMR number
CL029-009013-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

Situated c. 30m N of St. Caimin's Church (CL019-009011-) on Inis Cealtra and obscured by wooden fencing. A small subcircular stone (L 0.6m; Wth 0.56m; H 0.3m), almost totally moss-covered with a circular basin (diam. 0.35m; D 0.18m) filled with clay. This bullaun may have moved to different locations on the island at various stages. Dunraven (1877, 56) placed it at the W gable of St. Caimin's church and in 1984 it was noted at the N gable (McNamara 1984, 32, no. 3). McNamara also noted a 'round blue sandstone' weighing 5kg in the basin which is no longer present.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 31 August 2015

References

McNamara, Rev. T.V. 1984 The bullaun stones of Holy Island. The Other Clare 8, 31-2.

Dunraven, E. the Earl of 1875 Notes on Irish Architecture, 2 vols. London. George Bell and Sons.

Nearby in the register

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

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