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Ullard : Bullaun Stone

CountyKilkenny
Grid RefS 724 482
GPSS 78385 48199 (3m)
Longitude6° 50' 36.73" W
Latitude52° 34' 46.24" N
Nearest TownBorris (2.3 Km)
OS Sheet68
UTM zone29U
UTM x646114.22398781
UTM y5827680.5763148

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Ullard - Church
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 6th January 2008

This is a lovely double bullaun stone. It is a little over 1m long with the two bullauns/basins set out evenly in its upper surface. The stone is about 40-50cm wide and no more than 30cm high and is aligned roughly east-west.

The eastern-most bullaun is a shallow, irregular one cut into an area that slopes downward slightly making one edge higher than the other. The bullaun at the west end is almost perfectly hemispherical.

This stone, the other nearby bullaun and the holy well in this field add a lot to Ullard church as a site. I'm surprised the signs at the church don't mention them.

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