Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Ballycahill (kilmore Par., North Riding), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahill (kilmore Par., North Riding)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.83908, -8.23751
- SMR number
- TN020-085002-
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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 low rise of ground in undulating countryside. Spring well (TN020-100----) located 90m to W. A disused holy well (TN020-085001-) dedicated to St. Patrick was filled in in the late 1970s and described by a local landowner as a natural spring well with a flagstone surround and a possible bullaun stone. There is no trace of the bullaun stone (FitzPatrick 1985, 112). In 1958 Gleeson wrote that as 'a small boy the writer often was taken to see this site which, in addition to a fine running spring of water, had two adjoining stones on which were pointed out the marks of St. Patrick's knees and of the point of his staff' (Gleeson 1958, 43). It is not clear whether these two marked flagstones are the remains of a bullaun stone as recorded by Fitzpatrick or the remains of some other form of cup-marked stone.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
References
Gleeson, D.F. 1958 St. Patrick in Ormond. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 8, 42-4.
FitzPatrick, E. 1985 An archaeological survey of holy wells in the baronies of Arra and Owney, Upper and Lower Ormond. Unpublished typescript. National Monuments Section, Heritage and Planning Division, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.