Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Gooseberryhill, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gooseberryhill
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CO014-149----
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The National Monuments Service's description
McCarthy (1991, 86) recorded a mass rock in 'a glen called Gleann an Phobail (Glen Wobble), - the glen of the congregation - which separates the parishes of Newmarket and Meelin. Here Mass was said frequently in penal times, reputedly on a flat table cut out of the rock. The writer found a rock covered with grass, furze, etc. a distance of two long fields from the road, when he visited this quiet secluded a place in May 1988'. Site not inspected.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009