Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penal Mass station
Muff (Culdaff ED), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muff (Culdaff ED)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Altar
- Coordinates
- 55.29194, -7.17393
- SMR number
- DG005-032----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1841 map "Scotland (Southern part). XIII" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1841 · Scotland (Southern part). XIII (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Scotland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
One of six altars. Not represented on the OS Fair Plan or 6-inch 1st ed. map (1834). The altars were first marked on the OS 6-inch revision of 1848. The OS Revision Name Book contains the following: 'Six old Roman Catholic altars . . . for the celebration of mass. J. Byrne'. (information supplied by P. Walsh 09:03:2008-)
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.