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Penitential station

Drumharkan Glebe, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Penitential station, Drumharkan Glebe, County Leitrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Drumharkan Glebe
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.93091, -7.79291
SMR number
LE033-023001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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