Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Brockagh, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brockagh
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.01225, -6.32630
- SMR number
- WI023-005004-
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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 in a field N of St Kevin's Road. Nine granite boulders with thirteen basins. Four of these stones are in a group and are known as the 'Seven Fonts'. Marked on the OS 6-inch map 100m to the NW is 'Thornbush (site of), St Kevin's Keeve'. Desrcibed by Healy (1972, 128) as a boulder measuring 1.1m x 1.1m x 0.7m, 1 basin diam. 0.38m x 0.32m; depth 0.15m. In corner of field east of last (WI023-005003-). A flat-topped boulder with the basin 0.12m from one edge'.
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.
Date of upload/revision: 19 November 2012
References
Healy, P. 1972 Supplementary survey of ancient monuments at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. Unpublished OPW report.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.