Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Ashfield (tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ashfield (tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42288, -8.49937
- SMR number
- GA060-008----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small area of scrub and bushes. Known locally as 'St Patrick's Footprint', it consists of the rough outline of a foot (L 0.32m, Wth 0.13m max.) on the upper face of a flat natural limestone boulder: probably a product of natural erosion.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.