Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Derryhiveny North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryhiveny North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bullan
- Coordinates
- 53.13476, -8.19560
- SMR number
- GA118-029002-
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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
This bullaun is almost centrally located within an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA118-029001-) and is adjacent to the E wall of a farmhouse that was subsequently built in it. The bullaun (0.8m N-S; H 0.62m) is roughly triangular in shape. It bears one basin V-shaped basin (base Wth 0.3m; D 0.37m).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 6 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.