Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone (present location)
Tawnytallan, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawnytallan
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.46836, -8.33565
- SMR number
- LE001-063001-
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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
In the porch of the Roman Catholic church at Tullaghan. Originally from a cashel at Doobally, probably (LE001-035----), c. 1.3km to the ESE. This is a globular sandstone boulder (H 0.52m) which has a flat top (dims 0.58 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, and it may have been used as a stoup. A limestone plaque (LE001-063002-) from the same ringfort has been installed on the wall of the porch. It has an incised inscription in Latin commemorating Rev. Eugene Magowan who founded a chapel in '177?'. (Ó Gallachair 1958, 28-9)
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
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.