Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Eochaill (Bar. Árainn), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eochaill (Bar. Árainn)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12941, -9.71869
- SMR number
- GA110-085004-
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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
This subrectangular granite bullaun stone (L 0.84m; Wth 0.45m; H 0.23m) is set on a small grassed-over mound or cairn (c. 5m E-W; c. 4.5m N-S; H 1.3m). It bears a single basin (L 0.37m; Wth 0.28m; D 0.08m).
A holy well (GA110-085002-) and pillar stone lie in the next field to the E, c. 30m to the ENE and c. 35m respectively, and a number of burials (GA110-085003-) are recorded in the second field to the E, c. 45m to the NE.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 5 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Pillar stoneunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.