Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Gortanummera, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortanummera
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11341, -8.28837
- SMR number
- GA117-106----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In improved pastureland. A glacial erratic of pink granite (H 1m; L 1.9m; T 1.24m) contains the basin of a bullaun (diam. 0.35m; base diam. 0.15) on its N side. An ash tree is growing beside it at NW. The monument was brought out our attention by Dr C. Cunniffe.
The following photos have been uploaded:
GA117-106----_01.jpg General view from S
GA117-106----_02.jpg Detail of bullaun from N
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 20 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.