Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Ionascail, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ionascail
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.84946, -8.45332
- SMR number
- DG064-001001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked 'Penitential Stations' on the 1907 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is located at or adjacent to a 'holy well' which is described the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal' (1983), p.304; Site No. 1690. There is no mention of the 'penitential stations' in the description of the well.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.