Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Lickeen, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lickeen
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01219, -6.23052
- SMR number
- WI024-032----
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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
Bullaun 3 in Lickeen consists of a small, rounded granite boulder (52x42cm across, 33cm deep). At one end is a bowl-shaped basin 26cm x 25cm across and 12cm deep. 4cm to one side of the basin are 2 drilled holes. 2.8 and 3c across, 2.5 and 4cm deep respectively. These are like the holes drilled for blasting large boulders, but it seems most unlikely that this ever required to split this particular stone, which is reasonably small and unlikely to have been extracted from a larger boulder. Therefore, the purpose of these is not clear. There is also a small cup mark 3.5cm across and 0.5cm deep.
Compiled by: Chris Corlett
Date of upload: 19 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.