Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Oileán Máisean, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oileán Máisean
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30049, -9.88621
- SMR number
- GA076-011004-
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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
Embedded in the ground at the SW corner of a leacht (GA076-011005-). This granite bullaun is subrectangular in plan (dims. 0.48m E-W; 0.36m N-S; H 0.18m). Its basin (dims. 0.3m E-W; 0.18m N-S; max. D 0.17m) is roughly oval in shape with a narrow channel leading off it at NW. When visited in August 1984 an almost circular lid (0.38m N-S; 0.35m E-W), tapering from S (T 0.1m) to N (T 0.2-0.3m) with a smooth base, was noted standing upright at the NE end of the bullaun stone. When revisited in April 2014 the lid was on top of the bullaun, covering the basin.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 28 April 2014
Nearby in the register
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.