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Penitential station

Coskeam, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Penitential station, Coskeam, 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
Coskeam
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.05233, -9.03862
SMR number
CL006-140001-

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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 low-lying ground that slopes gently down to N from where there is a wide view across the valley. A circular cairn (diam. 7.8m; H 1.7m) with a conical top on which stands an upright slab. This is the most westerly of an E–W line of four penitential cairns (see also CL006-140002-, CL006-140003- and CL006-140004-) 11–13m apart, with a fifth cairn offset to the south, c. 90m distant.
These likely mark a route to and are associated with the penitential stations c. 400m WSW in Termon townland (CL010-026002- to CL010-026009-) surrounding the well (CL010-026001-) named ‘Tobernafiaghanta’ on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 29 september 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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