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Bullaun stone

Kilmanaghan, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone, Kilmanaghan, County Offaly, 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
Kilmanaghan
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.36402, -7.65725
SMR number
OF002-030004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

Cemented onto small pedestal of cut stone blocks up against the external S face of SE angle of church ruins (OF002-030004-) in Kilmanaghan graveyard (OF002-030002-). An oval-shaped hollow (top diam. 0.31m; base diam. 0.11m; D 0.14m) is cut into the surface of a roughly shaped boulder (0.6m X 0.39m; H 0.26m). It is not clear whether this stone represents a bullaun stone of Early Christian date or if the stone may have been used as a water stoup in the medieval church ruins. The small size of the boulder along with the angular shape of the stone may suggest that it was used as a stoup in the medieval church. However the shape and smoothness of the oval-shaped depression would be suggestive of a bullaun stone classification. This boulder may have been found during the graveyard clean-up in the 1970s when an Early Christian cross-slab (OF002-030003-) was also uncovered.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 30 September 2014

Nearby in the register

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

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