Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Ellagh Beg, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ellagh Beg
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08913, -9.02671
- SMR number
- MA040-032001-
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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
Located immediately to NE of holy well (MA040-032) on the bank of a stream that flows through a steep-sided gully. A low, subcircular cairn (c. 3.4m N−S; c. 2m E−W; H 0.5m) of stones. Two hazel trees grow from the NW side of the cairn.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 15 May 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.