Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Moneygold, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneygold
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.40501, -8.51098
- SMR number
- SL005-004003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, in the SW corner of a field, located at a holy well (SL005-004001-). This penitential station consists of a substantial, compact, grass-covered mound or cairn (10m N–S; 7.7m E–W; max. H 1.8m at S) of small and medium-sized stones in a soilmatrix. It is roughly oval in plan, with a domed profile and a narrow, somewhat flattened top. The cairn encloses the holy well within its W-facing slope. There is bullaun stone (SL005-004002-) on top of the cairn. A row of sycamore trees grow along the E side, and a E–W field wall abuts the S end of the cairn. A church and graveyard (SL005-005001-; SL005-005002-) are located c. 100m to ENE.
Attached images:
SL005-004003-_01.JPG viewed from NE
SL005-004003-_02.JPG viewed from W, with ranging rod indicating the location of the holy well (SL005-004001-)
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 11 December 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.