Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Cahersherkin, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahersherkin
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.94689, -9.21815
- SMR number
- CL016-158002-
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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
This is one of two penitential stations (see also CL016-158003-) associated with a holy well (CL016-158001-).
It consists of a triangular cairn (c. 3.6m N-S; c. 3m E-W) that decreases in height from S (H 0.6m) to N where it is flush with the ground surface. The well occupies its SW angle. A path outside the cairn, from the SW angle to the N apex, leads to the Saint’s seat that consists of four blocks cemented on top of each other and capped with a stone, which is naturally scalloped and shaped, and looks similar to a tractor seat in appearance. The well and cairn are located within a stone-walled enclosure (c. 15m N-S; c. 5-6m E-W).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 25 August 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.