Bolton Hill

Nearest town:
Castledermot (5km SSE)
OS reference:
S780897
OS sheet:
61
Latitude:
52° 57' 8.89 N
Longitude:
6° 50' 21.62 W
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Image of Bolton Hill (Bullaun Stone) by ryaner

There are 2 bullauns close to each other here. If you face the inn, they’re over the wall to the left of the bar entrance.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Apr 6, 2009
Image of Bolton Hill (Bullaun Stone) by ryaner

There are 2 more single basin bullauns over the wall in the left of this shot.

Image credit: ryaner
ryaner
ryaner Apr 6, 2009
Image of Bolton Hill (Bullaun Stone) by ryaner

Ever since the smoking ban there’s been a roaring trade in bullaun stones. Every pub should have one.

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ryaner
ryaner Apr 6, 2009

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Bolton Hill

ryaner
ryaner Apr 6, 2009

There are 4 bullaun stones in the vicinity of the Moone High Cross Inn that I could find (there may be more), 3 singles and a double. We’d stopped here for a spot of lunch and when I spotted the rough-hewn boulder outside the bar I thought; it couldn’t be – a bullaun stone being used as an ashtray!
On further investigation I encountered the other three around the pub amongst various modern stone circles and follies. I asked the landlady where the bullauns had come from and she said that her husband had dug them out of a wall under the road outside the inn.
These are not on archaeology.ie and I’ve never come across any mention of them elsewhere. Strange.

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Fantastic find Andy 6
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Apr 2009

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