Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Ceapach Na Gcapall, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceapach Na Gcapall
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Leaba Patrick
- Coordinates
- 53.55601, -9.39143
- SMR number
- GA027-015----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
Close to S shore of Lough Mask and 120m NW of Benlevy Lodge. It comprises two stations, 5m apart, each consisting of a U-shaped drystone wall (D 1.5m, H 0.8m). Inside the W station is a flagstone with the impression of St Patrick's knee as well as a dressed rectangular slab bearing a pedestal cross, above which are the letters [I]NRI.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.