Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Kilquane (islands By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilquane (islands By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84087, -9.04278
- SMR number
- CL033-062002-
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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
Situated at a children's burial ground (CL033-062001-) towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. A bullaun stone (0.7m x 0.65m; H 0.45m) of Old Red Sandstone conglomerate with a single basin (diam. 0.45m; D 0.15-0.25m). (Westropp 1917, 4)
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 May 2015
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.