Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Doire Leathan, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire Leathan
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.63860, -8.63003
- SMR number
- DG096-037----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Bullaun stone incorporated into the S facing field boundary of a roadway leading into a cottage. The monument consists of a roughly square shaped boulder (dims. H 0.42m; Wth 0.58m) with a deep smooth sided bowl (top diam. 0.31m; base diam. 0.17m; D 0.2m) in the centre. On the first edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map this bullaun is located in the centre of a clochan or clustered settlement. It is possible that this bullaun was a mortar used by the occupants of the clustered settlement of which only one cottage survives intact. A second bullaun (DG096-038) carved into bedrock is located 230m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 26 May 2010
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.