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Bullaun stone

Mullaghnaneane, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone, Mullaghnaneane, County Sligo, 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
Mullaghnaneane
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.36772, -8.53414
SMR number
SL005-189----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located in the SW corner of a farmyard, abutting the wall of a stone-built shed, with an abandoned vernacular cottage immediately to S. Roughly oval-shaped block of stone (0.5m by 0.45m; H 0.3m) with relatively vertical sides and a flat base. There is a circular straight-sided depression (0.28m by 0.26m; D 0.16m) in its upper surface. The provenance of the stone is unknown (pers. comm. Leo Leydon 2015).

Attached image:
SL005-189----_01.JPG

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 30 October 2015

Nearby in the register

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

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