Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Reentrusk, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reentrusk
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.66613, -10.08822
- SMR number
- CO114-064----
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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-face of bedrock on a rocky N-facing slope. An oval bowl-shaped water-filled hollow (0.3m x 0.2m; D 0.12m) in the bedrock. It is known locally as a holy well called 'Tobar Dhonnacha'. According to local information, rounds were formerly made here. Some coins were noted in the hollow and on the ground beside it.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.