Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Clonfad (dartree By; Kilkeevan Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonfad (dartree By; Kilkeevan Par.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.11191, -7.30265
- SMR number
- MO021-012002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the bottom of a S and E-facing slope and c. 10m N of a SW-NE stream close to a point where the stream turns NW. A bullaun stone, which was described in the 1940s (SMR file) as a rough boulder with a basin ’15 inches by 12 inches by 6 inches deep (c. 0.4m x c. 0.3m; D 0.15m)’ had a cure for warts but it is now thought to be in the floor of St Patrick’s holy well (MO021-012001-).
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 21 June 2018
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.