Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Gorteen West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Laghtpatrick - Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.46243, -8.92772
- SMR number
- LI037-023----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (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
In pasture. No extant trace of 'a remarkable stone surrounded by Brushwood' (OSNB No. 86, 192). Field boundaries to E and W of site have been removed. Single ash tree in field known locally as "St. Patrick's Tree"; here, according to local tradition, St Patrick killed the last snake in Ireland. Traditionally associated with St Patrick's Well (LI037-02506-) located c. 1,000m to SE (O Danachair 1955, 204).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.