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Mass-rock (present location)

Oltore, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mass-rock (present location), Oltore, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Oltore
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.48488, -9.02746
SMR number
GA042-230----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 in this field c. 95m to the WNW (see GA042-203---- for its original location). 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. The field was bulldozed in the 1970s during land-clearance works. The resulting spoil was packed against the field boundary to the SE. It is possible that the mass-rock may have been in this spoil but a search of it failed to locate it.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 20 June 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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