Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Knockanearis, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockanearis
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.03577, -7.80860
- SMR number
- WA034-024002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
There is local information of an ‘altar stone’, also described as a stone with a basin that could be a bullaun stone, at the site of the large enclosure (WA034-024001-) which may be a church site (Power 1952, 90). The stone could not be found.
Power, Rev. P. (1952) The placenames of the Decies. (second ed.) Cork University Press.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 02 October 2011
References
Power, Rev. P. 1952 (second ed.) The placenames of the Decies. Cork University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.