Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . fcoloured agate If inches high. It belonged to his great-grand-father, and was removed, with other valuables, from the old castleof Pole Hore, near Wexford, just in time to escape the sack of thatbuilding in 1798: how long the family may have had it beforethat date he does not. know. The figure shows an impression en-larged to three times the length of the original. Henry S. Crawford. A Bullaun.—In the townland of Ballinabarney, on the left-handside of the road leading from Rathdrum to Drumgoff, there isa large granite boailder, about th
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . fcoloured agate If inches high. It belonged to his great-grand-father, and was removed, with other valuables, from the old castleof Pole Hore, near Wexford, just in time to escape the sack of thatbuilding in 1798: how long the family may have had it beforethat date he does not. know. The figure shows an impression en-larged to three times the length of the original. Henry S. Crawford. A Bullaun.—In the townland of Ballinabarney, on the left-handside of the road leading from Rathdrum to Drumgoff, there isa large granite boailder, about the same size as that of the DeerStone at the Seven Churches, with three basin-like hollows sunkin it. The local name for it is The Wart Stone, from the beliefthat the water in the bowls has the power to cure warts. Mr. , in his handbook, says many theories have been ad-vanced as to the origin and uses of Bullauns, but as their purposevaried, no definite rule can be laid down on the subject. E. J. French. 1 Journal, , vol. xlix, p. MISCELLANEA. 183 ANCIENT CHURCH SITES AND GRAVEYARDS IN Corrigenda et Addenda. The following note should be added at the foot of Table : — The part of the parish of Tomregan, in the Diocese of Kilmore,which extended into Co. Fermanagh, is mentioned in the Ennis-killen Inquisition of 1609, but no church seems to have been•situated in that part of the parish. The parish church of Tomreganwas situated in Co. Cavan. There is a tradition of an ancient church having been situatedon the northern slopes of Belmore Mountain, south-east of church, if it really existed, may have been perhaps identicalwith the chapel of Templemullin in the parish of Boho, mentionedin Table I., the site of which I had not been able previously toirace. The remarks in Table II., that the church on Davys Island isthought to have been in ruins for more than eight hundred years,are certainly erroneous, and should, therefore, be dele
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