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
- 52.91568, -8.44823
- SMR number
- CL029-009208-
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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 on fairly level ground c. 15m N of St. Caimin’s church (CL029-009011-) on Inis Cealtra. A subcircular, grass-covered mound with a flattish top (4.6m E-W; 4.15m N-S; Wth across top 0.9-1.3m). A stone (L 0.34m) set along the perimeter at NE may have been a revetting stone. A second stone (L 0.3m) at S is set perpendicular to the mound. According to the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, vol. 2, 228) pilgrims went round a station monument at the ‘end of St. Caimin’s church’.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 17 November 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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.