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Penal Mass station

Cratlagh, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Penal Mass station, Cratlagh, County Donegal, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cratlagh
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Altar (Site of) (1905)
Coordinates
55.10061, -7.71446
SMR number
DG036-035----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At this spot there was an altar where Mass was celebrated during the era of the Penal laws (Kinahan 1889). Its identifications as a 'dolmen' (Borlase 1897) and as a 'chamber tomb' (Killanin and Duignan 1962; 1967) are incorrect.
Kinahan 1889, 280 (he incorrectly places this site on OS 6-inch sheet 35); Borlase 1897, 232, Kilmacrenan no. 16; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 373; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 374.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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