Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Tully (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tully (castlereagh By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81630, -8.41261
- SMR number
- RO021-022004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a shelf towards the bottom of a S-facing slope overlooking a bog to the SE, and c. 20m N of church (RO021-022008-), which is on the other (S) side of the NE-SW Bellanagare to Castlerea road. The basin of a bullaun stone (RO021-022003-) is set in the ground in an alcove (dims 0.5m x 0.5m; H 0.5-0.7m) at the centre of an overgrown penitential cairn (dims c. 5.5m E-W; c. 4m N-S; H c. 1m). A roofless drystone-built passage (Wth 1m; H 0.8m) leads to the bullaun stone from the W. (Knox 1902c, 189)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 3 July, 2015
References
Knox, H.T. 1902c Miscellanea - Bullauns, forming two of St. Patrick's Wells in Connaught. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 32, 188-90.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.