Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penal Mass station
Cloghan More, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghan More
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Altar (Site of) (1904)
- Coordinates
- 54.83619, -7.93201
- SMR number
- DG068-029----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Listed as a 'dolmen' (Borlase 1897) and later as a 'prehistoric chamber tomb' (Killanin and Duignan 1962; 1967), this was an altar that served as a place of worship during the era of the Penal laws and was removed in around 1845 (OS 1:2,500 Name Book, 1904).
Borlase 1897, 236, Raphoe South no. 2; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 68 (1904), 13; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 81; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 92.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.