Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Churchclara, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.