Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Castletown (ballycowan By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (ballycowan By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30847, -7.67558
- SMR number
- OF007-052002-
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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
Situated on a slight rise in undulating countryside. A large irregularly shaped graveyard (OF007-051) enclosed by a drystone wall with 19th-century headstones concentrated in its S sector. A small rectangular drystone-walled enclosure to the SE may represent a single family burial plot. Two bullaun stones (OF007-052001/002-) are located in a pile of field clearance stones to the N of the headstones. A chamfered and rebated jambstone of a late medieval limestone window can be seen lying on the ground immediately N of the headstones. This fragment may have come from the nearby castle ruins (OF007-051) located in the field to the SW of the graveyard.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.