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Penal Mass station

Carntullagh, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Penal Mass station, Carntullagh, County Leitrim, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (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

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

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