Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Commons (muskerry West By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons (muskerry West By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.81638, -9.09657
- SMR number
- CO082-113----
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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 pasture sheltered by trees. According to local information, a mass-rock was located on a raised triangular area (8m N-S; 5m E-W; H 0.4m) in the SW corner of a field. The field is known locally as the 'altar field', though there is no evidence of an altar stone. A lintelled wall cup-board (Wth 0.7m; H 0.6m; D 0.75m) is built into the W end of the boundary wall at the S. A holly tree grows from a collection of mainly small stones piled randomly against the S wall to the E of the wall cup-board.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.