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Bullaun stone

Páirc An Teampaill Íochtarach, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone, Páirc An Teampaill Íochtarach, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Páirc An Teampaill Íochtarach
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.62896, -9.39017
SMR number
MA117-009003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Located at the site of a church (MA117-009001-), in the N half of a graveyard (MA117-009002-).
This bullaun stone consists of a block of sandstone (Wth 0.4m by 0.42m at top, 0.14m by 0.3m at base; H 0.26m) with a bowl-shaped, circular depression (diam. 0.25m; D 0.1m) in the upper surface. The stone is roughly square in horizontal cross-section at top but narrows at the base, so that in vertical cross-section it is roughly V-shaped, with a blunted base. It has rounded or gently curved edges, except on one side (now at W) where there is a sheer vertical face. The top of the circular depression grades gently into the top surface of the stone; the sides incline inwards steeply to a narrow base. The bullaun stone is set on a small pedestal of cement, on top of the low rebuilt E wall of a church (MA117-009001-).

Images:
MA117-009003-_01.JPG
MA117-009003-_02.JPG

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of revised upload: 25 July 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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