Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Corconnelly, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corconnelly
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.14565, -7.21992
- SMR number
- MO017-071----
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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
Located at the NE edge of an oval grass-covered hollow (dims c. 27m N-S; c. 11m E-W) surrounded by rocks and scrub except at the S where it connects with a minor E-W road. It is a the bottom of an E-W valley. The mass-rock is a large, flat-topped stone (dims 1.7m N-S; 0.6-0.7m; E-W; H 0.7-0.9m) now covered by a wooden board and with a wooden canopy over it. (Ó Gallachair 1957, 120)
See the attaché image taken from the SW
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 October 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.