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Bullaun stone

Drumgristin Upper, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone, Drumgristin Upper, County Monaghan, 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
Drumgristin Upper
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Stone font
Latest-edition OS map
Stone font (Site of)
Coordinates
53.98579, -6.61924
SMR number
MO032-004002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 bottom of the undulating E-facing slope of a drumlin. A bullaun stone (dims 0.6m x 0.45m; H 0.35m) with a single basin (diam. 0.25m; D 0.05m) is against a field bank at ESE on the perimeter of the ecclesiastical enclosure (MO032-004003-) and just E of the site of the burial ground (MO032-004001-).

Date of upload: 14 April 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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