Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Rathreedaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathreedaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.12675, -9.03575
- SMR number
- MA031-043001-
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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)
- 1841 · 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
At a holy well (MA031-043----). A concentration of loose stones (c. 2m N-S; c. 3m E–W) abuts the E side of the well. It forms a low cairn, partly concealed by sod and hawthorn scrub, on the crown of the small, low hillock into which the well is built. It may be a penitential station.
Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 8 February 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.