Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Termon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Termon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05068, -9.04492
- SMR number
- CL010-026006-
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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 rough grazing, scrub and exposed limestone pavement with higher ground to the W. This is the northernmost of an alignment (SE-NW) of four penitential stations (along with CL010-026003-; CL010-026004- and CL010-026005-) with the closest located c. 8m to the SE (CL010-026005-). This is a moss-covered, roughly circular drystone cairn (L 2m; H 0.9m) .
Also associated are ‘Tobernafiaghanta’ holy well (CL010-026001-) and another penitential station (CL010-026002-) c. 60m to the ESE, along with three more penitential cairns (CL010-026007-, CL010-026008- and CL010-026009-) located c. 50m to the SW. Further away (c. 450m to NE) is another alignment (ENE-WSW) of four penitential cairns (CL006-140001-, CL006-140002-, CL006-140003- and CL006-140004-) with a fifth cairn (CL006-140005-) c. 90m to their S.
Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 15 December 2022
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.