Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Callystown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Callystown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Denniss Alter
- Coordinates
- 53.79968, -6.23811
- SMR number
- LH022-005002-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked on the 1912 OS 6-inch map as 'St. Dennis's Altar'. A large rectangular slab with a flat surface set on outcrop, probably a natural erratic. (CLAJ 1930, 184)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 03 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Quayunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.