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Bullaun stone

Great Island, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone, Great Island, County Wexford, 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
Great Island
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Bullan
Coordinates
52.29841, -6.99371
SMR number
WX039-018003-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A bullaun stone described by Westropp (1918, 11) as ‘three feet by two feet by 15 inches (dims c. 0.9m x c. 0.6m; H c. 0.4m) with an oval scoop 12 inches by 10 inches (dims c. 0.3m x c. 0.25m)’ was on the perimeter of enclosure (WX039-018001-) at N but was moved c. 1976 to a location on open, accessible ground (WX039-092----) c. 1km to the S. The stone is a triangular granite piece (dims 0.8m x 0.7m) with an undulating upper surface (H 0.28-0.52m) that has a grey patina where it was exposed on the bank of the annexe but the underside is a clean white. There is one basin (diam. 0.3-0.32m), the depth of which varies (0.16-0.23m) with the surface of the stone.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 28 April, 2015

References

Westropp, T.J. 1918 Five large earthworks in the barony of Shelbourne, Co. Wexford, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquries of Ireland, vol. 48, 1-18.

Nearby in the register

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

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