Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Disert, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Disert
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.73374, -8.18730
- SMR number
- DG084-001009-
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
Located adjacent to a holy well (DG084-001004-), within the N half of an ecclesiastical enclosure (DG084-001001-). This is one of two penitential cairns, which flank the holy well, and are associated with traditional devotional activities at the well. It consists of a mound of stones, mainly fist-sized but occasionally larger. A tree grows out of the mound. There is a similar cairn (DG084-001010-) immediately to W. (Beglane et al. 2016, Appendix 2).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 August 2017
References
Beglane, F., Meehan, H., and Nugent, L. 2016 Conservation Management Plan for the ecclesiastical enclosure and pilgrim landscape of Diset, Inver parish, Co. Donegal. November 2016. Unpublished report submitted to the NMS.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.