Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Quakerstown, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Quakerstown
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04836, -8.93076
- SMR number
- CL011-006001-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Immediately W of a holy well (CL011-006----) in an area of level karstic pavement. A suboval penitential cairn (5.1m N-S; 4.5m E-W; H 0.7-1.3m) generally made of fist-fized stones, among which blackthorn trees have taken root. The base of the cairn is grass-covered. Brew (1998, 57) suggested that this cairn was either formed by pilgrims and penitents, who often brought stones to holy wells as token offerings, or that it might be a burial cairn.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL011-006001-_01.jpg View of penitential cairn with holy well (CL011-006----) in the foreground.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 18 January 2023
Brew, F 1998 The Parish of Kilkeedy: a local history, published by Author, Tubber.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.