Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Laghtgannon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laghtgannon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40905, -9.28160
- SMR number
- GA054-041003-
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
In rough pastureland. This bullaun (GA054-041003-) is associated with an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA054-041002-), which lies c. 13m to its N. It came to light in March 2008 when a detailed survey of ‘Killeroon Church’ (GA054-041----) and graveyard (GA054-041001-) was carried out prior to the realignment of a section of the N59, which runs NNW-SSE immediately to the W of the church (Blakeman 2008). It consists of an irregular, roughly wedge-shaped granite boulder that is wider at its E end and narrows to the W (L 1.9m E-W; Wth 1.5m at E; Wth 0.8m at W; H 1.2m) and bears two fine oval-shaped bullauns on its sloping upper surface. Both have similar dimensions (L 0.46m; Wth 0.43m; D 0.12m along lower edges) but different orientations caused by the two different slopes on the boulder's surface: the E bullaun is orientated E-W, while the W bullaun is orientated roughly N-S, almost at right-angles to the former. According to local information, water in the hollows was used until fairly recently to cure warts and other similar ailments (ibid., 7; Pl. 2).
The following images have been uploaded:
GA054-041003-_02 View from SSW
GA054-041003-_03 Detail of bullauns
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 6 July 2023
Blakeman, B. 2008 Topographic survey of a church site and enclosure (GA 054:041) adjacent to the existing N59 at Laghtgannon townland, Co Galway. Eachtra Archaeological Projects. Unpublished report for Galway County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.