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Penitential station in Killuney

Penitential station

What is recorded here

On N-facing slope of a low hill in pastureland. Known locally as 'St Patrick's Footprints', it consists of a heavily eroded earthfast limestone slab (L 1.3m, Wth 0.8m, H 0.3m). A foot-like groove and two other irregular depressions are visible in its surface but all of them appear to be natural. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA017-118

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • JohnArmagh, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Dougbermingham at en.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • Nealhen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • dougf, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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