Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Killeany, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeany
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05082, -9.24621
- SMR number
- CL005-108005-
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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
In the SE sector of ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-108002-), c. 16m SE of Killeany medieval church (CL005-108002-) and in the SE sector of a graveyard (CL005-108004-). A penitential station or altar (3.3m N-S; 2.6m E-W; H 1.2m) built of dressed stone. Rounded, water-rolled beach stones used for cursing sit on top (Westropp 1900, 132).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 27 March 2023
References
Westropp, T.J. 1900-02 The churches of Co. Clare and the origin of the ecclesiastical divisions in that county. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Series 3, vol. 6, 100-180.
Nearby in the register
- Cursing stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.