Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Tooms West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooms West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.87305, -8.95362
- SMR number
- CO071-162----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In semi-wooded scrubland. A sandstone outcrop (approximately 3.20m wide on north face; height 1.70m) is locally believed to be a Mass-rock. An oval-shaped area of ground, lacking in vegetation, approximately 1m to the north of the rock (3.26m E-W; 1.80m N-S) is known as the ‘Red Spot’ and believed to be the place where a cleric was murdered when trying to escape from Macloneigh Church (CO071-082002-) to Kilnarovanagh church (CO083-007—-). According to local folklore, after the cleric’s blood was spilled nothing ever grew in this spot again.
Compiled by: Dr Bernadette McCarthy
Date of upload/revision: 21 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.