Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Doobally, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doobally
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.46461, -8.31679
- SMR number
- LE001-035002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The inscription (LE001-035003-) and the bullaun stone, known locally as a font, which are now at Tullaghan Roman Catholic church (LE001-063001-), came from a fort in Doobally townland that was called Lisahurman fort, possibly this one. The bullaun stone is a globular sandstone boulder (H 0.52m) which has a flat top (dims 0.58m x 0.54m) with a single basin (diam. 0.35m; D 0.2m). There are traces of pecking in the basin and around the top of the stone. (Ó Gallachair 1958)
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
References
Ó Gallachair, Rev. P. 1958 A forgotten penal-day church in Kinlough. Journal of Cumann Seanchas Breifne (Breifne Historical Society) 1 (1), 28-9.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.