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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
52.65609, -7.14607
SMR number
KK020-017009-

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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

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

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

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