Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Cró Na Roda, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cró Na Roda
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.67303, -8.55220
- SMR number
- DG091-006----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Mass rock situated in upland river vallley beside old road which has been incorporated into the SE facing field boundary on the N side of the mountain road. Site consists of a flat slab (L c. 0.9m; Wth 0.15m) which is resting on smaller stones beneath forming an altar which is known locally as the mass rock (pers. comm. S. O'Beirne). The mass rock is situated beside a mountain road on rising land in a mountain river valley overlooking the valley below to the SW with higher ground to the NE.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 29 May 2010
Nearby in the register
- Crannog1 mi
- Hut site1 mi
- Field system1 mi
- Hut site2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.