Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Ballybought (Gilltown ED), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybought (Gilltown ED)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10744, -6.63579
- SMR number
- KD029-050----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
On a gentle W-facing slope in improved pasture. A granite boulder (L 1.4m; Wth 1.2m; H 0.46m) has an almost circular water-filled bullaun/basin on its upper surface (diam. 0.46m). Known locally as ‘the wart stone’.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 17 September 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.