Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Attirory, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Attirory
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93939, -8.07499
- SMR number
- LE031-039002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located at the top of a prominent drumlin with a N-S section of the River Shannon c. 300m top the W. This is a D-shaped bullaun stone (dims 0.8m x 0.5m; H 0.5m) with a single basin (diam. 0.32m; D 0.16m) worn down at one side which had been at a nearby house in 1977 (SMR file). It became incorporated into the road bank but was rediscovered in excavation (Delaney 2015, 2).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 October, 2019
Amended: 10 January 2020
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Delaney, D. 2015: Archaeological monitoring of topsoil strip for a proposed cycle lane and footpath at Attirory, Co. Leitrim. Licence No. 15E0453. Preliminary report, Unpublished, Dominic Delaney and Associates
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.