Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Rosscahill East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosscahill East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bullaun
- Coordinates
- 53.38735, -9.24730
- SMR number
- GA068-061003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · 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
In pastureland c. 50m to the SW of 'St. Brecan's Church' (GA068-061001-). This irregularly shaped bullaun stone (L 1.25m; Wth 1m) bears two circular basins, both of which are regularly cut and even in outline. The N basin (diam. 0.35m; D 0.17m) is slightly smaller than the S one (diam. 0.45m; D 0.35m). (Kinahan 1868, 78)
The following image has been uploaded: GA068-061003-_01.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 July 2023
References
Kinahan, G.H. 1868a Cyclopean churches in the vicinity of Loughs Corrib, Mask, and Carra. Part I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 10, 76-80.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.