Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Ballintombay Lower, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintombay Lower
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.93743, -6.28747
- SMR number
- WI029-005001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Granite boulder (L 1.3m; Wth 1.14m; T 0.56m) with three basins (diam. 0.24-0.32m; D 0.08-0.16m) in the upper surface. Known locally as 'the Wart Stone'. (Crawford 1912, 340; Price 1959, 164, no. 10)
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 125/1940).
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.
References
Price, L. 1959 Rock-basins or “bullauns”, at Glendalough and elsewhere. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 89, 161-88.
Crawford, H.S. 1912a A bullaun stone in county Wicklow. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 42, 340.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.