Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Knockaloura West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaloura West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55432, -8.77463
- SMR number
- GA030-086----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the S end of a rise in an area of rough grazing. According to local information, a large natural limestone boulder (H 1.1m; L 2.2m; Wth 1.3m) with a number of irregular fissures on its surface is known as a 'bullaun stone'. Local people bless themselves with the water that gathers in its fissures. A similar boulder (GA030-087----), with the same tradition, lies c. 440m to the NE.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 1 October 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.