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Bullaun stone

Ullard, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone, Ullard, 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
Ullard
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.58066, -6.93308
SMR number
KK025-038008-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In the field immediately NW of the medieval church of Ullard (KK025-038001-) on an E-facing slope, in pasture. The church is c. 52m to the S, a holy well 19m to the N and another bullaun stone (KK025-038006-) lies 12m to the E. The church and holy well are dedicated to St Fiachra, who according to tradition founded a church here in the latter part of the 6th-century (Vigors 1893, 257). The bullaun stone (H 1m; Wth 1.8m narrowing to 0.66m; L 1.72m) is a very large triangular granite boulder with a single basin in its upper surface (dims. 0.33m x 0.28m; D 0.30m). When visited in 1994 it was overhung by two hawthorn trees, which are now no longer there.

See attached photographs:
KK025-038008-_01 bullaun (KK025-038006-) to left, bullaun (KK025-038008-) to the right and church (KK025-0380081-) in background
KK025-038008-_02 bullaun

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 15 February 2017

References

Vigors, P. D. 1893 The antiquities of Ullard, County Kilkenny, 1892. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 23, 251-8.

Nearby in the register

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

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