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Mass-rock

An Spidéal Thiar, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mass-rock, An Spidéal Thiar, 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
An Spidéal Thiar
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.25146, -9.29537
SMR number
GA092-027----

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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

In an area of very rough grazing and outcropping limestone; there is a stream to the E and a house has been built 2.5m to the SW. The mass rock is a large natural piece of outcropping limestone that is aligned NNE-SSW. Its upper face is 2.9m long and it varies in width from 1.6m at the NNE end to 0.5m at the SSW end. It is 0.5-0.6m high on its E side, rising to 1.8m high on its W side. On this side there is a steep drop into a short narrow gully that runs along the W face of the rock. Abutting the E face and parallel to it is a landing that is 2.3m long and 1.3m wide. This landing consists of a natural slab of rock outcrop with concrete flooring. It is accessed by two flights of steps - one natural outcropping rock and the other concrete. Known locally as Carrig an Aifreann/Mass-rock.

The following image has been uploaded: GA092-027----_04.jpg View from SE

Updated by: Olive Alcock

Date of revised upload: 12 July 2023

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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