Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Curragh (duhallow By., Kilbrin Par.) , County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (duhallow By., Kilbrin Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CO023-330----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Bowman (1934, 402-3) recorded a large glacial boulder known locally as a mass rock, where it is said that mass was celebrated during penal times, standing in the same field as two ringforts (CO023-056----, CO023-057----). 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