Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Carrowndangan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowndangan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82129, -9.05921
- SMR number
- MA080-046003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
Part of a holy well (MA080-046002-) named St. Patrick’s Well on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps.
According to Knox (1902, 188-189), a bullaun stone formed an integral part of St Patrick’s Well. He noted that ‘The object of veneration is the water in an artificial hollow in a stone, not that of a natural spring.’ There was no visible trace of the bullaun stone when the well was inspected in 1998.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 3 December 2021
References
Knox, H.T. 1902 Bullauns, forming two of St. Patrick’s wells in Connaught. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 32, 188-190
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.