Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Ballynalacken, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynalacken
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.37407, -8.38604
- SMR number
- LI049-266----
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
In pasture, immediately E of a large upland forestry plantation and 1.3km SE of the summit (1531 ft. 566m), known as the Pinnacle, on Slievereagh. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Peggy Barry, Glenbrohane Heritage Group, in 1996 as a Mass Rock. A photograph shows an inscribed stone set into a large irregular shaped boulder. The mass rock is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached photograph and location map of mass rock.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 5 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Urn burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.