Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Drumharkan Glebe, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumharkan Glebe
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93092, -7.79293
- SMR number
- LE032-023001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the bottom of a W-facing slope, in a triangular grass-covered field (dims c. 60m N-S; c. 30m E-W at N) with mature deciduous trees that is at the W end of a lane. The holy well (LE033-023001-) has a cairn (dims 9.5m NE-SW; 4.5m NW-SE; max. H 0.7m) of pilgrims’ tokens adjacent to the NW. A pattern was held at the well on the last Sunday in July, called 'Garlic Sunday', until c. 1860 when it was transferred to the well at Kiltoghert (LE027-079---) (MacNeill 1962, 606).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 December 2019
References
MacNeill, M. 1962 The festival of Lughnasa. London. Oxford University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.