Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bullaun stone
Kilmacnevan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacnevan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56524, -7.53353
- SMR number
- WM011-115005-
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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
Saddle-shaped bullaun stone (dims. L 0.44m x T 0.2m x Wth 0.25m) with shallow depression (dims. top diam 0.22m x 0.16m; base diam. 0.1m; 0.08m D) located in SW quadrant of Kilmacnevan graveyard (WM011-115001-). The stone is shaped like a small saddle quern and may have functioned as a stoup embedded into the wall of Kilmacnevan Church (WM011-115-----).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.