Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06592, -9.52941
- SMR number
- GA120-002005-
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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
This oval granite bullaun (0.6m x 0.43m; T 0.22m) is lying on the ground to the NW of a leacht (GA120-002009-). When Westropp (1895, 272) and Mason (1938, 197-8) visited the island it was located near the doorway of the church (GA120-002004-), where another bullaun (GA120-002004-) is embedded in the ground. This bullaun has a slightly dished broad face with a shallow oval depression (0.3m x 0.2m). Within the latter is smaller conical depression (Wth 0.3m; D 0.3m) (information from Dr J. Waddell). (Gosling 1993, 96, 552)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 21 January 2016
References
Gosling, P. (compiler) 1993 Archaeological inventory of County Galway, vol. 1: West Galway. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.