Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Derrydarragh, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrydarragh
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Altar
- Coordinates
- 53.56709, -7.95760
- SMR number
- LF025-001002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Circa 33m to the SSE of a holy well (LF025-001001-). This mass-rock consists of a roughly shaped, squared limestone boulder (max. H 0.65m; 1.15m NE-SW; 0.9m NW-SE). Its SW end is incised with the letters 'BM' (Blessed Mary) in the style of late-18th/early 19th-century gravestone inscriptions.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 7 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.