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Penitential station

Moneygold, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Penitential station, Moneygold, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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