Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Boleyvaunaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boleyvaunaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bolaunaneeve
- Coordinates
- 53.38503, -9.22153
- SMR number
- GA068-005002-
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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 a small thorn thicket in level, rough pasture c. 110m ESE and slightly downslope from ‘Templebegnaneeve’ (GA068-005001-) an early Christian oratory. An earthfast granite boulder, trapezoidal in shape (L on N side 0.7m; L on E side 1.08m; L on S side 0.9m; L on W side 0.55m; H above present ground level 0.2m), contains a well-carved, circular basin (diam. 0.38m; D 0.18m) towards its narrower W end.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 16 March 2012
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.