Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Unknown,eshcloghfin, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Unknown,eshcloghfin
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.32903, -7.10617
- SMR number
- MO005-001----
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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
Located on a S-facing slope of Eschloghfin Hill and in the valley of a mountain stream with a NW-SE section of it c. 100m to the SW. The location is known as Poll an Aifrinn – the hollow of the Mass, and the fragments of the mass rock were reconstituted in 2000 after damage by forestry works. It is a slab (dims 1.33m x 0.96m; T 0.1-0.13m) now displayed on a masonry pier, and the top of the stone is 0.85-1.05m above the sloping ground and facing S. It is in a clearing in a coniferous forest, and a wide path (L c. 350m) leads S and SE to a forestry road. Mass was also said in the valley between Eschloghfin and Bragan c. 700m to the N where a priest is said to have been killed and where there is a commemorative cross. (Ó Gallachair 1957, 125)
See the attached image taken from SE
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 November, 2016
References
Ó Gallachair, P. 1957 Clogher's Altars of the Penal Days. A Survey. Clogher Record 2, 97-130.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.