Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
An Caiseal (tc Málainn Bhig), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Caiseal (tc Málainn Bhig)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.70876, -8.72188
- SMR number
- DG080-020001-
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in poor rocky land on the floor of Glencolumbkille valley. Indicated on the 1907 OS 6-inch map as 'Penitential Station', this subcircular cairn (diam. 3.8m; H 0.65m high) served as a prayer station on St. Columbkille's Turas. It is composed of small to medium-sized field stones, and surrounds the base of a cross-inscribed pillar (DG080-020002-). It is partly grassed-over.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.