Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Kilmanaghan, County Offaly, Ireland
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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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
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
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.