Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Strake, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Strake
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- MA085-013009-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated within the complex of ecclesiastical remains at Kill: it is associated with the graveyard (MA085-013002-). Westropp (1911a, 25) mentions ‘an early-looking bullaun, or basin- stone, in the graveyard’, placing it ‘outside the chancel to the south’ (1911a, 37). He describes it briefly as ‘a small shallow basin from which three cuts radiate irregularly’. A drawing of this ‘basin-stone’ is included in Westropp’s pl. V (1911a), from which the ‘cuts’ appear to be narrow grooves radiating from a small circular depression. There is now no trace of a stone resembling this description at the place indicated, nor was any noted during the surveys of the monuments at Kill.
The above description is derived from: New Survey of Clare Island. Volume 5: Archaeology. Edited by Paul Gosling, Conleth Manning and John Waddell. (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. 2007). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 4 December 2018
References
Gosling, P., Manning, C. and Waddell, J. (eds.) 2007 New Survey of Clare Island, Volume 5: Archaeology. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy.
Westropp, T.J. 1911 Clare Island survey: history and archaeology. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 31, Section 1, Part 2, 1-78.