Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunsany
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53818, -6.61677
- SMR number
- ME037-044----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the roadside, opposite the entrance to Dunsany castle. On the limestone base of the Dunsany cross (ME037-017----), which is a rectilinear slab (L 0.86m, Wth 0.80m, T 0.08m) are a number of regular hollows. These form a cluster on the upper surface of the slab to the S of the cross shaft. There are three main circular, rounded, hollows, in the E (diam. 0.15m, D 0.09m); in the W ( diam, 0.17m, D 0.09m); the S example is smaller (diam. 0.03m, D 0.01m). To the S and E of these are a series of smaller shallow, artificial, cavities.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 02 December 2013
The linked images of the bullaun stone were taken on 7 July 2013.
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Cross - Churchyard crossunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.