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Bullaun stone

Churchclara, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone, Churchclara, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Churchclara
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65505, -7.14868
SMR number
KK020-017007-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In grounds of Churchclara House, c. 150m WSW of Clara church (KK020-017001-) and graveyard (KK020-017002-). Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 355-6) relates a story that the bullaun, 'was carried from the churchyard to its present position, about a century ago, by a strong man named Wawtear O'Keeffe, who, after perforning the feat, gave expression to the wish that, if another, as strong as he, every again appeared on the scene, he should carry the font back to its old place in the graveyard'.
An irregular limestone boulder (max. dims. 0.7m x 0.47m) with a circular basin (diam. 0.26m; D 0.03m) placed off-centre. Another bullaun (KK020-017009-) is incorporated in the stone wall along the roadside c. 70m NW of the church.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 18 November 2020

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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