Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Ballinaspick North, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinaspick North
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11644, -7.93911
- SMR number
- WA029-001001-
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)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located in a coniferous forest at the bottom of a N-facing slope. A small triangular cairn (WA029-001001-) (dims. 2m x 3m; H 0.9m), perhaps a penitential cairn, is located just to the W of the channel of the holy well (WA029-001----).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 July 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.