Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Cregganore, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregganore
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13810, -8.69873
- SMR number
- GA114-066005-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This possible penitential station lies c. 5m to the SW of a holy well (GA114-066002-). It consists of a small rectangular drystone walled enclosure (3m ENE-WSW; 2m WNW-ESE; H 0.5m). Two courses of walling survive. It is totally overgrown and a large thorn tree is growing at its E end.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 3 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.