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Penitential station

Lakill And Moortown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Penitential station, Lakill And Moortown, County Westmeath, 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
Lakill And Moortown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Monument
Latest-edition OS map
Monument
Coordinates
53.68606, -7.24549
SMR number
WM003-102----

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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)
  • 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

Wayside cross (WM003-097----) located 340m to the W. Depicted as ‘Monument’ on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Described in 1983 as, ‘no visible trace of any monument or archaeological feature can be seen on the roadside. A high earthen bank forms the roadside boundary’ (SMR File 1983).

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 14 August 2012

Nearby in the register

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

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