Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penal Mass station
Baile Na Bó, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Na Bó
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Altar
- Coordinates
- 55.14971, -8.05850
- SMR number
- DG025-047----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This feature, listed by Borlase (1897) as a 'dolmen', was later described as a 'chamber tomb' (Killanin and Duignan 1962; 1967). This is an altar at which, it is locally believed, Mass was celebrated during the era of the Penal laws.
Borlase 1897, 230, Kilmacrenan no. 1; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 298; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 300; SMR 1987, 25:47; RMP 1995, 25:47.
The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.