Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
Kilfree, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilfree
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97907, -8.54030
- SMR number
- SL044-047007-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Built into a field boundary wall, located to E of a holy well (SL044-047001-), a penitential cairn (SL044-047002-) and cross slab (SL044-047003-).
An angular boulder with a broad, shallow natural depression on its upper surface. Water naturally collects in the depression. According to local information, pilgrims visiting the nearby holy well blessed themselves using water taken from the depression in the boulder when they were en-route to and departing from the well.
Attached images:
SL044-047007-_01
SL044-047007-_02
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.