Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Coskeam, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coskeam
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05241, -9.03820
- SMR number
- CL006-140003-
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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 low-lying ground that slopes gently down to the N from where there is a wide view across the valley. A partially collapsed cairn (diam. 1.3m; H 0.8m). It is the second from E of an E–W line of four penitential cairns (see also CL006-140001-, CL006-140002- 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
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.