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Mass-rock

Ballymihil, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mass-rock, Ballymihil, County Clare, 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
Ballymihil
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Monument
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.05398, -9.12155
SMR number
CL005-160042-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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

In improved stony pasture immediately E of a dwelling and farmyard and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). Named ‘Monument’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and the 1897 25-inch map. Indicated but not named on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. A drystone structure locally known as a mass-rock ‘where mass was celebrated in penal times’. The monument is defined by a U-shaped drystone enclosure (int. H 1.3m; L 1.2m; Wth 0.7m) appended to the S side of a drystone field wall. A small stone on the ground within the enclosure has a natural water-filled hollow reminiscent of a bullaun stone.  In the vicinity of two crosses (CL005-160011-; CL005-160013-) marked on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. 

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 7 October 2025

Nearby in the register

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

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