Penitential station in Rowls Daunt, County Cork

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What is recorded here

In fosse of ringbarrow (11873). Irregular stone (0.63m x 0.81m; T 0.17m) with oval depression (0.15m x 0.8m; D 0.7m) on one end. Bowman (1934, 99) noted that rounds paid at stone. Locally remembered as 'stone with certain healing powers.' According to local information, no longer visited by pilgrims.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO005-023002

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