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Site/Artefact Carrowmacloughlin/ Glencally/ Teevenacroaghy Type Enclosure Site Number SMR Mayo 087 04301 National Grid Reference 090030 East 279940 North Map ( 1:50000) Ordnance Survey Ireland, Discovery Series No 31 List of Sites and Artefacts Click Here Interactive Map Click Here

Description
This enclosure cannot be more accurately classified due to the irregularity of its shape and the insufficient remains. Enclosing three cairns with a circumference of four hundred and seventy paces it may have served as a prehistoric enclosure. In modern times it is the third station on the pilgrimage route of Croagh Patrick. A 2m wide trackway scours the outside edge of the enclosure marking the journeys of the countless pilgrims that have traced the footsteps of previous devotees.

The name Reilig Mhuire is generally used to refer to the three enclosed cairns but might be the name for the entire site. In his 1838 description, John O'Donovan describes how the pilgrim after finishing his rounds of the other stations 'descends by another precipitous path leading from the summit of the south west extremity of the cone or Cruach where the most important of the penitential Leachts or monuments are situated. Inside the Great Enclosure or Garraí Mór as it is locally called, are three distinct circles at each of which the pilgrim repeats seven Paters, seven Aves and one Creed, travelling all the while on his knees for seven circuits around each one. The turas or pilgrimage is then finished.

Excavation Details
N/A

Access/Ownership
Public

References

• Hughes, H. 1991, Croagh Patrick, An Ancient Mountain Pilgrimage, Westport.
• Morahan, L. 2001, Croagh Patrick, Co. Mayo, archaeology, landscape and people, Westport

Check out the following sections of the website for related information:

• Carrowmacloughlin Penitential Station

Mayo Sites and Artefacts

1. Mayo Abbey 2. Balla 3. Ballintubber Abbey 4. Tóchar Phadraig 5. Aghagower 6. Lankhill 7. Boheh 8. Croagh Patrick Summit 9. Carrownalurgan 10. Ardoley 11. Kiladangan 12. Glaspatrick 13. Shrawee 14. Clare Island - Strake 15. Clare Island - Lecarrow 16. Caher Island 17. Durless

18. Carrowmore 19. Knappaghmanagh 20. Cushalogurt 21. Carrowkeel Ecclesiastical Remains 22. Thornhill 23. Carrowkeel Murrisk 24. Carrowkeel Cahernaran 25. Carrowmacloughlin Cairn-1 26. Carrowmacloughlin Cairn-2 27. Carrowmacloughlin Cairn-3 28. Carrowmacloughlin/ Glencally/ Teevenacroaghy 29. Carrowmacloughlin Sweathouses 30. Glaspatrick Holy Well

31. Glaspatrick Rath-1 32. Glaspatrick Early Ecclesiastical Remains 33. Glaspatrick Ringfort 34. Glaspatrick Rath-2 35. Glaspatrick Ecclesiatical Remains 36. Glaspatrick Altar 38. Glaspatrick Graveyard 39. Murrisk Demesne Standing Stone-1 40. Murrisk Demesne Standing Stone-2 41. Murrisk Demesne Standing Stone-3 42. Teevenacroaghy

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