Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Inishmore Or Deer Island, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmore Or Deer Island
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.71812, -9.02256
- SMR number
- CL050-089----
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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
On the N shore of Deer Island. Described by O’Sullivan et al. (2010) as follows: ‘A possible bullaun stone was found on the northern shore of Deer Island. It consists of a hemispherical cup hollowed out of a rock. The rock may be broken. Because most of the rocks around are limestone bullaun like rocks can frequently be seen. This one, however had a much smoother ‘cup’, leading us to believe it had been used to grind something, perhaps fishbait’. (O’Sullivan et al. 2010, Appendix 1, 81, Deer Island 10)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 9 October 2019
References
O'Sullivan, A., Dillon, M., Sands, R., McDermott, C., Shaw, R., Devlin, G. 2010 The Fergus Estuary and Islands: discovering a maritime historic landscape in Co. Clare. Report to the Heritage Council. University College Dublin, School of Archaeology in association with the Discovery Programme.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.