Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Oxford, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oxford
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- MA080-052----
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The National Monuments Service's description
This record refers to a bullaun stone which Knox (1904, 173-4) attributed to Oxford townland and which he described as follows: ‘one called Gloonpatrick is at Oxford by the side of a stream where a large bullaun is in a stone sunk in the earth with a few stone built round to keep out rubbish.’ Knox (1902 188-190) also recorded the tradition, that the hollow in the stone was worn by the knees of St Patrick when he knelt to pray
The exact location of this bullaun stone is unknown.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 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
Knox, H.T. 1908 The History of the County of Mayo to the close of the 17th century. Dublin.