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Bullaun stone

Castletown (Iverk By), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone, Castletown, 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
Castletown (Iverk By)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.39764, -7.37997
SMR number
KK034-032008-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the lower S-facing slope of Kilmacoliver Hill, overlooking the valley of the River Suir. The free-standing sandstone bullaun stone lies beside a holy well (KK034-032007-) c. 25m E of the S side of Kilkieran graveyard (KK034-032002-). Roughly triangular in shape (L 0.88m; Wth 0.53m; H 0.44m), it lies on top, at the W end of the stone revetment which partially encloses the holy well. It has a single roughly circular depression (dims. 0.32m x 0.3m; D 0.15m). It is associated with the early medieval monastery of Kilkieran and Kilkieran church (KK034-032001-) and is described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 243) as a, ‘holy water font’. A modern slab at the base of the bullaun has an inscription in capitals: Holy water font cure for headaches. Within the graveyard there are two other bullaun stones (KK034-032013-; KK034-032014-) which were uncovered during a clean-up of the graveyard in 1985 (Hurley 1988, 124, 126).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 15 August 2018

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Hurley, M. F. 1988 Excavations at an early ecclesiastical enclosure at Kilkieran, county Kilkenny. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 118, 124-34.

Nearby in the register

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

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