Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Glanalin, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanalin
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.59593, -9.71825
- SMR number
- CO129-025----
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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 rough pasture interspersed with heather and gorse and occasional outcropping rock, on a N-facing slope overlooking Bantry Bay. This mass-rock, which comprises a cuboid-shaped stone slab (2.5m E-W; 1.2m N-S; H 0.75m), lies at the foot of the N face of E-W outcropping rock. An inscribed stone, lying beside the mass-rock, commemorates the site and records that mass was again celebrated on the 17th of May 2000. A series of white poles marks a path through the hillside from the nearby road.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.