Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Ballintombay Upper, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintombay Upper
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.94298, -6.28361
- SMR number
- WI029-011----
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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
One of two boulders (see also WI029-011001-), each with two basins, previously described by Price (1959, 164, no. 11). On low-lying, overgrown and wooded ground, islanded by small streams flowing into a larger stream to the N and c. 10m N of a ringfort (WI029-002----). An earthfast granite boulder (dims. L 1.7m NE-SW; Wth 1.2m; H 0.5m) bears two oval basins; the smaller (max. diam. 0.28m; D 0.075m) just SW of the larger (max. diam. 0.4m; D 0.13m). The second bullaun stone (WI029-011001-) was not located.
The above summary description is a revised version (updated in the light of recent research) of that published in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997).
See attached photograph provided courtesy of Gary Hughes
Date of upload/revision: 12 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.