Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Ballymihil, County Clare, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.