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Bullaun stone

Moyvoughly, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone, Moyvoughly, County Westmeath, 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
Moyvoughly
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.44423, -7.70205
SMR number
WM030-025002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

Situated in low-lying, wet pasture, to the immediate E of an avenue running NW-SE. Not depicted on OS mapping. A holy well (WM030-025001-) lies c. 55m to E. According to English (1968), a single hole bullaun stone known as St Patrick’s knee is situated on the right-hand-side of an old avenue and to W of a holy well named after St Patrick. Monument described in 1979 as a single bullaun depression (diam. 0.3m) situated approximately in the centre of a roughly triangular-shaped limestone boulder. The depression is roughly circular in plan and is defined by artificially smoothed sides which narrowing toward the base which is filled with water. Monument is potentially visible as a boulder on the right side of an old avenue on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

Date of upload: 08 November 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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