Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Grange More (caher Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange More (caher Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Stone
- Coordinates
- 52.35932, -7.91767
- SMR number
- TS081-004----
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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
In the centre of a T-junction, embedded in a low concrete island surrounded by small stones embedded in the cement with cement kerbing. The bullaun stone, an amorphous boulder (diam. 0.44m x 0.5m) with two, roughly circular depression, the largest (diam. 0.19m x 0.2m; D c. 0.1m) and the smaller (diam. 0.17m x 0.15m; D c. 0.7m). The bullaun stone has been painted green. The boulder is limestone according to the Power (1908, 25) and is associated with St. Patrick who is supposed to have knelt on the stone, leaving an imprint of his knees (ibid).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Power, P. 1908 Placenames of the Decies. Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archaeological Society 11, 1-34, 45-78, 135-43 and 179-210.
Nearby in the register
- House - 19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.