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Penitential station

Ballyshanny, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Penitential station, Ballyshanny, 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
Ballyshanny
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.99667, -9.21352
SMR number
CL009-092002-

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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 low knoll in pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). This subcircular penitential station (6.5m N-S; 5m E-W; H 0.9m) is composed of a loose tumble of large unworked stones and smaller blocks with small moss-covered stones at the centre. No kerbing or revetting stones are evident. It is possible that it is the ‘heap of stones’ noted by Kaftannikov (1953-1957, 30), which surrounded the well-cut socket stone of a cross (CL009-092----). Alternatively, a very small circular area (diam. 2.7m) at the highest point of the knoll, 7.5m to the NE, may be it. The latter is defined by large unworked grass-covered blocks (av. L 0.5m; Wth 0.2m; H 0.4m) set on edge as a kerb/retaining wall and the interior is filled with loose stones. This may have been a wall/plinth/socket for the cross.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 31 May 2022

References

Kaftannikov, L. 1953-1957 The high crosses of Kilfenora. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 7, 29-30.

Nearby in the register

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

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