Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Keelhilla, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keelhilla
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08357, -8.99604
- SMR number
- CL006-025003-
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 level rock pavement and rough grazing, c. 425m ESE of the ecclesiastical remains associated with St Colman Mac Duagh (CL006-023----). A small drystone cairn (L 2.8m; Wth 2.3m; H 1m), one of two possible penitential cairns set close together. In 1997 a single thin rectangular flag was set upright at the centre, this was no longer upright in 2015. The second, slightly smaller cairn (CL006-025002-) stands 1.3m to NE and is joined to this one by a low drystone wall of single flags set on edge and vertically abutting one another. A holy well (CL006-025----) is located c. 2m to the E.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL006-025003-_01.jpg View from S in 1997.
CL006-025003-_02.jpg View from E in 2015.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 4 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.