Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Carrigcleena More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigcleena More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CO041-128----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Bowman (1934, 570) recorded 'Carraig an Aifrinn - Mass Rock, about 150 yds. N.W. of Carraig a Tuama. It is said that Mass was offered up here in the Penal Times'. Carrig a Tuama was the most southern cleft of Carrigcleena outcrop (ibid.). Exact location of mass rock not known.
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