Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Fanore More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanore More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10270, -9.27228
- SMR number
- CL004-019002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a steep, wet, W-facing hillslope, and within a large field system (CL004-016001-). ‘Tobergeeraun’, a holy well (CL004-019----) stands c. 4.5m to the ENE. A low (H0.3m) circular (diam. 3m) cairn of loose stones may be a penitential station associated with the nearby holy well.
See attached CL004-019002-_1: photo of possible penitential station from W, with holy well (CL004-019----) visible behind.
Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 29 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.