Portlaun by Drummin
The multiple porthole of Drummin is located in the townland Drummin ( Irish An Dromainn ) near Laragh in County Wicklow in Ireland .
The stone is 100 meters from the road and has been moved here from its original location. There are over 150 registered bullauns in Ireland, mostly in Leinster , with 50 in County Wicklow alone. The term bullaun refers to the mostly knee-high menhir - like or flat stone, which can also accommodate depressions called bullaun, whereby most stones only have one.
The trapezoidal bull's-eye stone is about 2.0 meters long, 1.5 meters wide and almost one meter thick. There are three portlauns on the surface. Two close together near the widest part of the stone and a third to the left of it. Each portlaun is quite deep and about 30 cm in diameter.
Other Multiple Bullauns: ( Ardattin Bullaun (2), Glebe I (3) both in County Carlow and Kelshamore (3), County Wicklow )
100 meters east of the porthole is an outcrop , partially covered by grass, with at least 20 bowls . The largest at the east end has two rings that are only visible in oblique light.
Nearby is the Drummin Ogham stone .
literature
- Merit Åhs: Fran skålgrop till dopfunt? En kontinuitetsstudie av Ireland's bullaunstenar. Master's thesis Stockholm University 1998.
- Liam Price: Rock-Basins, or 'Bullauns', at Glendalough and Elsewhere In: The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Vol. 89, No. 2 (1959), pp. 161-188
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Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 22 " N , 6 ° 16 ′ 38" W.