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Penitential station

Fahee South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Penitential station, Fahee South, 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
Fahee South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04304, -9.03028
SMR number
CL010-137011-

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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

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 square cairn (2m N-S; 2m E-W; H 1.1m) c. 60m to the NW of the other 10 cairns. An upright flag (H 0.4m) on top leans slightly to the N. Glencolumbkille Church and graveyard (CL010-038002- and CL010-038003--) lie c. 800m downhill to the SE.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL010-137011-_01.jpg View of cairn from E
CL010-137011-_01.jpg View of cairn from NW

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 6 June 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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