Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Ullard, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.