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Bullaun stone

Grange More (Caher Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone, Grange More (Caher Par.), County Tipperary South, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

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

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