Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishcaltra Or Holy Island
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.91580, -8.45007
- SMR number
- CL029-009052-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a small clearing in a very overgrown area close to the site of St. Michael’s church (CL029-009004-) on Inis Cealtra. A flat boulder with a smooth, trapezoidal shaped, upper face (max. L 1.25m; max. Wth at E 1m; Wth at W 0.43m; traceable H 0.38m). According to the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, vol. 2, 228), pilgrims went ‘7 times round a large flag stone [at St. Michael’s garden]….on which they finally (i.e.after having gone round it 7 times) impressed kisses.’ The way into the clearing had been recently opened as there had been a gathering on the island for Mass. A stone step (Wth 1.65m) adjacent to the stone may have been associated with St. Michael's church.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 October 2015
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.