Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cursing stone
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
- 53.05079, -9.24611
- SMR number
- CL005-108008-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 penitential station (CL005-108005-) situated SE of Killeany church (CL005-108001-). 28 cursing stones were noted by Westropp (1905-8, 49) on top of a ‘rude and curious altar of large limestone blocks’. On inspection in 1997 some small water-rolled stones were still visible under a covering of sod.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 20 December 2016
References
Westropp, T.J. 1905-08 Ancient remains near Lisdoonvarna. Journal of the Limerick Field Club 3, 39-53, 143-59.
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 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.