Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishcaltra Or Holy Island
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bullaun (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.91730, -8.44880
- SMR number
- CL029-009019-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a very overgrown area at the N end of Inis Cealtra c. 50m from the N shore. A bullaun stone, not fully accessible (c. 0.7m NE-SW x 1.2m NW-SE; H at front 0.22m) with a circular basin (diam. 0.5m; D 0.16m), broken at the SE end. Described (Macalister 1916-17, 143-4), citing a letter from a Mr. Hibbert, as ‘sandstone, with occasional small, rounded, quartz pebbles in it; undoubtedly it has been shaped [to a hexagonal form]. The flat faces and angles are too clean and sharp not to have been worked. There is a lump on one of the angles which is the only portion not cut away. The bottom is shouldered off all round, so far as I could feel.’
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 October 2015
References
Macalister, R.A.S 1916-17 The history and antiquities of Inis Cealtra. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 33C, 93-174.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.