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Penitential station

Glensleade, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Penitential station, Glensleade, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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