Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Fahee North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fahee North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04229, -9.02900
- SMR number
- CL010-137005-
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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
One of a group of 11 cairns (CL010-137----/CL010-137001- to CL010-137011-) along the NE-shoulder of a ridge of exposed limestone and rough grazing at the top of a series of hairpin bends rising from the E. Listed as ‘Penitential station/cairn(s)’ in the RMP (1996) on the basis of a map annotation by Tom Coffey (1994, SMR file). They are described as ‘Stone-Heap Memorials’ in the National Folklore Collection Photograph no. A068.19.00001, taken in 1946. A roughly circular cairn (diam. 1.5m; H 1.3m) immediately adjacent to a smaller cairn (CL010-137004-) and lying 18m SE from the main cairn (CL010-137----). An irregular flagstone stands on top of the cairn. Glencolumbkille Church and graveyard (CL010-038002- and CL010-038003--) lie c. 800m downhill to the SE.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL010-137005-_01.jpg View of cairn from E
CL010-137005-_02.jpg View from W
CL010-137005-_03.jpg View from E with CL010-137004- adjacent
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 6 June 2023
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.