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
- 52.65609, -7.14607
- SMR number
- KK020-017009-
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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
Located c. 70m N of Clara church (KK020-017001-) and graveyard (KK020-017002-). Incorporated into the lower courses of a field boundary with external stone facing, on the E side of road. An irregularly shaped limestone block (max. dims. 0.4m x 0.35m; max. H 0.25m) with shallow, circular basin (diam. 0.16m). Another bullaun (KK020-017007-) from the graveyard is currently located in the grounds of the farmhouse to the SW. In 1893 it was noted that, 'In the ditch of the roadway may been seen the heel-stones of the gateway of the former entrance to the church precincts, one of them still in situ' (Anon. 1893, 233). This may refer to a spudstone and could be the stone with the depression in the field boundary which was more recently interpreted as a bullaun.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 18 November 2020
References
Anon. 1893 Proceedings. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 23, part 3, 231-3.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.