Bullan, bullaun stone in County Wexford (WX053-007----)

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What is recorded here

Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is located at the side of the road at Faythe cross-roads in Tacumshin village. This is a rectangular block of granite (dims 0.96m x 0.76m; H 0.67m) with a single basin (diam. 0.2m; D 0.15m). There are two shallow depressions on the stone (diam. 6cm: D 1 2cm) on either side of the basin.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX053-007

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