Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Legan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Legan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62329, -7.64533
- SMR number
- LF023-041----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
In an area of outcropping rock. The bullaun has been carved into an exposed section of bedrock that forms part of a NW-SE roadside fence. The bullaun (diam. 0.3m; D 0.14m) undoubtedly is an enhancement of a pre-existing depression in the limestone caused by natural weathering. There is a holy well (LF023-040----) c. 44m to the NE. (English 1971, 147)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 07 June 2013
References
English, N.W. 1971 Field antiquities of County Longford. Journal of the Longford Historical Society 1(2), 146-55.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.