Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Leckaun, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leckaun
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.16717, -7.01394
- SMR number
- WA027-054----
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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 gentle W-facing slope, and set into the ground. This is an irregularly shaped bullaun stone of granite (dims. c. 1m x c. 0.6m) with one basin (diam. 0.3m; D 0.12m). (Power 1906a, 39; 1907c, 208)
Power, Rev. P. (1906a) The place-names of the Decies, WAJ 9, 12-39, 80-106, 154-70, 228-65.
Power, Rev. P. (1907c) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Nutt, London.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.