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Bullaun stone (present location)

Greatcommon, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone (present location), Greatcommon, County Dublin, 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
Greatcommon
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.52984, -6.17090
SMR number
DU008-075----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This bullaun stone now lies outside entrance to St Macculin's modern R.C. church. It was the stone which formerly lay inside the tower of the medieval church (DU008-010004-) at Lusk. Hunt (1974, 146) recorded that; 'Within the tower is a 17th century font, bullaun stone and portion of a fireplace removed from Bremore castle, decorated in false relief with six shields bearing arms surrounding the Annunciation (Roe 1979, 140)'. It may be the stone which formerly lay beside St Macculin's well (DU008-010007-) (Ó Danachair 1958, 73).

Cross-reference with DU008-010001-

Compiled and Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 26 July 2023

References

Ó Danachair, C. 1958 The holy wells of county Dublin. Reportorium Novum 2, 68-87; 2, No. 2 The holy wells of County Dublin: A supplementary list, 233-5. Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press. Roe, H.M. 1979 Illustrations of the Holy Trinity in Ireland: 13th to 17th centuries. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 109, 101-50.

Nearby in the register

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

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