Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Tullynageer, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullynageer
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.19933, -6.69490
- SMR number
- MO015-009----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the bottom of the NW-facing slope of a hill known locally as Friar’s Hill. A small N-S stream that forms the border with County Armagh is c. 5m to the W. A N-S rib of rock outcrop (max. H c. 10m) has a low knob or bedrock (dims of top x. 0.5m x 0.5m; H 1m) at its base that served as the altar. (Ó Gallachair 1957, 124)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 28 July, 2016
References
Ó Gallachair, P. 1957 Clogher's Altars of the Penal Days. A Survey. Clogher Record 2, 97-130.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassified2 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tomb2 mi
- Standing stone3 mi
- Ringfort - rath3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.