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Bullaun stone (present location)

Lickeen, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone (present location), Lickeen, County Wicklow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lickeen
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.01158, -6.23221
SMR number
WI024-031----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (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

One of two bullauns (see WI024-031----). This consists of a large granite boulder 1.65m x 1.1m across, and 75cm high. At one edge are three basins, and there are no basins within the flat area on the highest part of the stone. The largest is 33cm x 30cm, and 12-20cm deep. This basin shares one edge with a smaller basin immediately to one side. This smaller basin measures 18cm x 24cm, and 9cm deep. One side is open at the edge of the stone. The third basin measures 20cm x 30cm, 25cm deep at the back.
(Record no. WI024-030001- was created for the (unknown) original location of this monument.)

Compiled by: Chris Corlett

Date of upload: 19 October 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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