Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Kelshamore, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kelshamore
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99624, -6.60470
- SMR number
- WI021-019----
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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
One of three bullaun stones in a rocky area at the foot of a marked E-facing slope. A large roughly rectangular earthfast boulder with three circular basins in the upper surface ((a) diam. 0.4m; D 0.25m; (b) and (c) diam. 0.33m; D 0.23m).; a second boulder (4m to the SE) may be another part of this stone and is upside-down. A bullaun stone (WI021-019001-) lies c. 40m to the SE and another bullaun (WI021-019002-) lies c. 40 to the NNE. The grass-covered remains of a rectangular building (WI021-020----) indicated on the OS 6-inch map as the site of a convent lie c. 10m to the SE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Mary Tunney
Date of revision: 21 November 2012
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.