Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Lisglassan, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisglassan
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Mass Garden
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.21914, -6.83944
- SMR number
- MO014-046----
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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
Situated on a little col with higher ground to the NW, E and S, lower ground to the W and a small S-N stream valley just to the E. The mass-rock was in a small mass-garden, which was a small rectangular field (dims c. 65m NE-SW; c. 35m NW-SE) described as a Mass Garden o the 1834 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but it is now occupied by houses. The mass-rock was placed between the masonry gate-piers into the mass-garden c. AD 1990. It is a rectangular stone (dims 1-1.05m x 0.55-0.6m; H 0.6m) set on a cement base with three steps leading down to the road. (Ó Gallachair 1957, 113)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 June, 2016
References
Ó Gallachair, P. 1957 Clogher's Altars of the Penal Days. A Survey. Clogher Record 2, 97-130.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.