Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penal Mass station
Cratlagh, County Donegal, Ireland
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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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
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.