Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Sevenchurches Or Camaderry, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sevenchurches Or Camaderry
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.00998, -6.32737
- SMR number
- WI023-009009-
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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
The two halves of a bullaun stone are now located inside St Kevin's Church (WI023-009----), in 1950, Leask listed these two halves as No. 40 and 41 in his guide to Glendalough (Leask 1950, 49). The two halves were described seperately by Healy in 1972, The first half of the bullaun was described as a stone, located outside St. Kevin’s Church (WI023-009---) measuring ‘0.43m x 0.27m x 0.12m (half of stone only), 1 basin, diam. 0.15m, depth 0.14m. Only half of the basin remains’ (Healy 1972, 110). The second half described by Healy as a stone, located outside St. Kevin’s Church (WI023-009---) measuring ‘0.5m x 0.35m x 0.18m (half of stone only), 1 basin, diam. 0.16m, depth 0.11m. Only half of the basin remains’ (Healy 1972, 109). The two halves of this bullaun are now located inside St. Kevin's Church (WI023-009---)
Date of upload: 21 November 2012
References
Healy, P. 1972 Supplementary survey of ancient monuments at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. Unpublished OPW report.
Leask, H.G. 1950 Glendalough, Co. Wicklow: national monuments vested in the Commissioners of Public Works. Dublin. Stationery Office.
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