Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Brackloon (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackloon (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Patricks Bed
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Patricks Bed
- Coordinates
- 53.84354, -8.31673
- SMR number
- RO015-054003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On an oval hillock (dims c. 44m N-S; c. 33m E-W; H 1.8-2.5m) rising from a level landscape. Described as a slab resting on some small stones and surrounded by a drystone wall (OS Name Books). A broken slab (dims 1.5m NE-SW; 1.15m NW-SE) surrounded by and partly overlain by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth c. 1m; H 0.3m). The base of the hillock is defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.3m-1.4m) NE-SSE and a scarp (H 1.1m at N to 1.4m at W) elsewhere with a complete fosse (Wth of base 2.3m at N to 4m at W; D 0.2m at E to 1.4m at W), which has been re-cut as a drain SW-NW. Mature deciduous trees grow at the edge of the hill, and one at the summit has a small shrine with a statue. Two possible bullaun stones (RO015-054002-) (Gannon 1972) could not be found. Stations were performed here on Garland Sunday (MacNeill 1962, 631-2).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
MacNeill, M. 1962 The festival of Lughnasa. London. Oxford University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.