Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Gurteenroe, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gurteenroe
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.17453, -9.57114
- SMR number
- KE048-117001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
In the 1840s a stone trough 'of great antiquity' was recorded in the holy well (KE048-117----) (OSNB, Molahiffe, no. 1, 36). It was cut in the form of a round basin (diam. c. 0.3m; D 0.15m) and 'rounds' were performed there by local inhabitants on Good Friday (ibid.). The bullaun stone is no longer at the holy well (O'Hare 2000, 67-8).
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.