Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Strake, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Strake
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79379, -9.99037
- SMR number
- MA085-013010-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated within the complex of ecclesiastical remains at Kill: it lies 9.6m to SSE of the holy well (MA085-013004-) just outside the line of the enclosure (MA085-013008-). It consists of a small low amorphous grassed-over mound (H 0.3m max.), roughly egg- shaped in plan (NE–SW 3.8m, NW–SE 2.2m). At its wider, south-western end, a number of small stones and one large slab (0.95m max. dim.) protrude from the sward. Though it bears a superficial resemblance to the island’s many fulachtaí fia, the morphology of this mound marks it off from the latter. Possibly a penitential monument related to the ecclesiastical remains.
The above description is derived from: New Survey of Clare Island. Volume 5: Archaeology. Edited by Paul Gosling, Conleth Manning and John Waddell. (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. 2007). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 4 December 2018
References
Gosling, P., Manning, C. and Waddell, J. (eds.) 2007 New Survey of Clare Island, Volume 5: Archaeology. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.