What is recorded here

Bullaun is a rock-well in wet Limerick pasture, cut smooth as an eggshell and still marked on modern maps. It lies between old ring-barrows and townland edges, hidden now under grass and floodwater. People may have visited it for water, prayer or luck, but the swamp has taken most of that life back.

In wet pasture, liable to floods, 85m N of a townland boundary with Ballydaheen and 90m W of a townland boundary with Kilballyowen. Ring-barrows (LI032-217/216----) lie 250m to E and 300m to W respectively. Annotated ‘Bullaun’ on the current edition OSi 6-inch map. Monument described by Lynch (1913, 21) as: ‘At the south-east extremity [of a drained swamp between Greallach and Ardnaboula, Knockderk and Ballydaheen], we found the Rock well, or Bullaun; it is 22 inches (56cm) deep by 14 inches (36cm) in diameter, and perfect in form as the exterior of an egg shell, and exactly similar to the one [ LI032-038----] near Bourchier’s Castle [LI032-022034-]’. Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018, although a small, brown worn patch of grass near this spot, may indicate the precise location. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 8 November 2020

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