Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Claristown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claristown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64988, -6.27158
- SMR number
- ME028-065----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A rough irregular shaped boulder (L 1.5m, Wth 0.75m, H 0.6m) on the summit of a ridge running E-W, in a field of pasture. Views are restricted to the S and it overlooks the sea in the E. A wayside cross formerly stood in this field and the field is known locally as the mass-rock field (pers. comm. Colin Byrne)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 10 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.