Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penal Mass station
Glenalla, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenalla
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- The Altar (1905)
- Coordinates
- 55.10689, -7.63683
- SMR number
- DG037-024----
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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 has been listed as a 'dolmen' (Borlase 1897). According to the OS Memoir (1834), it was an altar used as a place of worship by the local population. There is now no trace of it.
OS Memoirs, Tullyaughnish parish (1834), 37; Kinahan 1889, 282; Borlase 1897, 233, Kilmacrenan no. 21; RMP 1995, 37:24.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.