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Mass-rock

Lisglassan, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mass-rock, Lisglassan, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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