Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Tooms West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooms West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.87333, -8.95390
- SMR number
- CO071-161----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In semi-wooded scrubland, set into a north-facing slope. The exposed upper surface and north, west and east sides of a large boulder (4.40m E-W, 3.60m N-S; height 0.80m) feature markings including striations and a large number of hollows, which are likely glacial features. According to local folklore, the boulder was a focus for popular devotion in the early 20th century, and the striations are thought to represent whipcracks and the hollows footprints of bloodhounds linked to the pursuit of a cleric from Macloneigh Church (CO071-082002-) who was subsequently killed below a mass rock a short distance to the north.
Compiled by: Dr Bernadette McCarthy
Date of upload/revision: 21 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.