TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Bullaun stone (present location)

Bellmount Lower, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone (present location), Bellmount Lower, County Cork, 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
Bellmount Lower
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.84100, -8.82758
SMR number
CO083-161----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In the village of Crookstown, In pasture, on private land. A possible bullaun stone was found lying along a field boundary, and reported to NMS in April 2021. It is a rather large block of limestone, sub-rectangular in shape originally (L 0.56m; Wth 0.48m; H c. 0.30m) with rounded corners. A significant portion of the stone is broken off (c. 050m by 0.40m). The longer surviving side of the stone is flat, while the other sides are rounded and slant inwardly, suggesting that the stone may have been set against a wall or flat surface. The hollow is circular (Diam. 0.28m; D 0.15m), but it is not centred within the stone. This is not the original location of the bullaun stone, and it may be associated with the early graveyard and church located c. 50m to the NE of the field where it is currently located (CO083-075001- and CO083-075002-).

 

Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye

 

Date of upload: 25 November 2025

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Bullaun stone (present location) in Cork All County Cork records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map