Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Illauntannig, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Illauntannig
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.32528, -10.02091
- SMR number
- KE019-002019-
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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
Illauntannig is the largest of the Magharee Islands which lie off the N tip of the peninsula that separates Brandon Bay and Tralee Bay. The Early Christian settlement KE019-002001- is enclosed by a strong cashel wall and is comprised of 2 small oratories, 3 bee-hive huts, a souterrain and wall-chamber, 3 leachts, a burial ground and a stone cross. Three cross-slabs, a bullaun stone, a hand-bell and fragments of 5 quern-stones have also been discovered within the enclosure and a 2nd bullaun stone lies at the edge of the sea about 100m to S. The hut-site, old field walls and reputed cross-inscribed boulder on Reennafardarrig may also be related to this early settlement.
Bullaun stones: (2) A large boulder on the sea-shore has a bullaun depression in its upper surface, .2 to .25m in diameter and .06m deep. A cross has been carved beside this. The crossing of the arms and shaft and their terminals are formed by deep oval depressions which are linked by shallow grooves.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 843. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 8 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.