Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Páirc An Teampaill íochtarach, County Mayo, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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.