Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Durrow Demesne, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Durrow Demesne
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32451, -7.52100
- SMR number
- OF009-005023-
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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
A sketch of the field to the S of Durrow church (OF009-0050013-) and graveyard (OF009-005009-) containing the monastic enclosure was drawn by Reverend Sterling de Courcy Williams in 1899 which shows the upstanding remains of the monastic enclosure (OF009-005003-) along with a 'backache stone' now lost and the 'headache stone' which is the small base of the high cross (OF009-005007-) standing along the avenue into Durrow Abbey House. In 1870 there is a reference to this 'backache stone' when Mr. Thomas Stanley of Tullamore recorded that ‘within the ancient gate of Durrow, immediately behind the rampart (OF009-005003-), a conglomerate rests upon a raised piece of green sward. It is about four and a-half feet long. And due west of it, at some distance, there is a singularly marked limestone, most famous as curing pains in the back’ (Anon. 1870, 28). See attached drawing taken from De Courcy Williams 1899 which shows location of backache stone.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 29 April 2014
References
Williams, S. de Courcy 1899 The termon of Durrow. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 29, 44-52.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.