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
- 53.05026, -9.04580
- SMR number
- CL010-026009-
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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. One of a pair of cairns, along with CL010-026007- c. 3m to its N. This is a low, roughly circular drystone cairn (H 0.8-1m; L 2m) with a slab on the top which is orientated E-W. A third cairn (CL010-026008-) stands nearby, c. 30m to the ESE.
Field inspection in 1999 noted a collapsed site which may have been another penitential station located c. 13m to the SSE of CL010-026009- (L 1.9-2.1m; max. H 0.8m) with a flag on the top aligned NNW-SSE.
Also associated is an alignment (NW-SE) of four penitential stations (CL010-026003-, CL010-026004-, CL010-026005- and CL010-026006-) c. 70m to the NW, with ‘Tobernafiaghanta’ holy well (CL010-026001-) and another penitential station (CL010-026002-) a short distance (c.40m) beyond again, to the NW.
Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 15 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.