Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Glensleade, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glensleade
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05152, -9.15329
- SMR number
- CL005-126002-
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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 SE-facing slope in a damp field of rushes, 16m north of a natural spring well and pond. A small circular stone structure (diam. c. 3.2m; H 0.4-0.6m) inside a larger oval one (7m E-W; 6m N-S; H 0.8m). There is a gap in the outer ring at E marking a possible entrance. This may be a penitential station associated with the holy well or it may be the well itself. There are no structural remains at the pond or any evidence of veneration.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 5 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.