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Penitential station

Coollemoneen, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Penitential station, Coollemoneen, 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
Coollemoneen
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.11467, -8.30586
SMR number
SL034-070002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 rough pasture, on the N-facing slope of a low rise. A circular cairn (6m N-S; 5m E-W; H 0.9m) of small stones. A cross-inscribed stone (SL034-070004-) is at the edge of the cairn. Nine rounded stones (SL034-07003-) similar to 'cursing stones' and a cross-inscribed slab (SL034-070004-) were noted here in 2003 (pers. comm. M. B. Timoney). There is a holy tree (SL034-070001-) at the S edge of the cairn. The cairn is known locally as a site of stations or 'pattern'. Wood-Martin (1892, 372) referred to stones which are 'so disposed as to simulate the form of a rude altar'. Two quarry holes lie immediately to N of the cairn.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).

Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Nearby in the register

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

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