Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Castletown (iverk By), County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.