Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Oltore, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oltore
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48519, -9.02872
- SMR number
- GA042-203----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to local information, a mass-rock was formerly located here. It consisted of a piece of undressed sandstone (H 0.9m; Wth 0.5m) which was inscribed with a cross. It was surrounded by bushes and stones. On inspection in April 1984 no visible surface trace survived. It was bulldozed in the 1970s during land-clearance works. The resulting spoil was packed against the field boundary to the SE but a search of that failed to locate it (see also GA042-230----).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 20 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rock (present location)under 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.