Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penal Mass station
Carntullagh, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carntullagh
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghasaggart
- Coordinates
- 54.16745, -7.94173
- SMR number
- LE019-015----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the bottom of an exposed face of rock outcrop (L 10m; H c. 4-6m) which is at the top of the SW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge overlooking Lough Allen. It is described in italic lettering as Cloghasaggart - the priest's rock - on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A fissure (Wth 0.8m; L 4.5m) in the rock outcrop is where priests sheltered during the Penal era, but there is no evidence of a mass-rock (Clancy and Forde 1980, 31-2; Gallogly 1993-4, 426; 1999, 399).
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
References
Gallogly, Rev. D. 1999 The diocese of Kilmore 1800-1950. Monaghan. Breifne Historical Society.
Clancy, E. and Forde, J. 1980 Ballinaglera parish, Co. Leitrim: aspects of its history and tradition. Ballinaglera. Authors.
Gallogly, Rev. D. 1993-4 Kilmore churches. Journal of Cumann Seanchas Breifne (Breifne Historical Society) 8 (30), 389-444.
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.