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
- 52.91544, -8.44913
- SMR number
- CL029-009187-
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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 33m W of the round tower (CL029-009010-) on Inis Cealtra. A grass-covered subrectangular mound of earth and stones (2.8m N-S; 2m E-W; max. H at S 0.45m). An earthfast slab (L 0.4m; H 0.2m; T 0.7m) at NW may have been a kerbstone. A second earthfast stone at SE (Wth 0.3m; H 0.3m; T 0.12m) is falling or pushed outwards and may also have served as a kerbstone. Mentioned in the OS Letters for County Galway (O'Flanagan 1927, vol. 2, 227-8) as forming part of a pattern held on the island.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 22 June 2016
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.