Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stoup (present location)
Doonpeter, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonpeter
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bullán (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.05829, -8.44634
- SMR number
- CO043-014003-
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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
In SE quadrant of burial ground (CO043-01401-). Set into the ground is a small rectangular stone (0.3m x 0.28m) with a steep-sided bowl-shaped depression (diam. 0.23m; D 0.21m) cut into it (half-filled with rainwater). Lying on grund nearby is stone lid (missing a piece) which appears to fit over the bullaun. Two upright slabs (H c. 0.8m), one with a white cross painted on it stand immediately to S c. 1.2m apart; according to O'Donoghue (1914) they formed the door into an 'ancient church', the area behind these is now heavily overgrown. On N side modern holy statue is wooden shelter. O'Donoghue (ibid) records a story of bullauns removed by a woman who was 'forced by an unseen hand at night to restore it'.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2021 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/
Date of upload/revision: 06 April 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.