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 indcated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13012, -9.71534
- SMR number
- GA110-087001-
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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
Some 50m NE of Teampall na Ceathraír Álainn (GA110-086001-). Thought named 'Holy Well' on the OS 6-inch map, this consists of a subrectangular bullaun stone (L 0.7m) half-hidden under a modern field wall with a possibly natural oval depression (0.3m by 0.2m) in its upper surface. Two medals were visible. Circa 17m to WSW in the adjoining field is another bullaun-like stone (GA110-087001-), indicated but not named on the 2nd ed. of OS 6-inch map, which is half-buried in the grass. Though no offerings are visible, local tradition attributes one cure (of blindness) to it many years ago (pers. comm. J. Waddell).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 1 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.