Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Cremoyle, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cremoyle
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carrick an Affrin
- Coordinates
- 54.15868, -6.99654
- SMR number
- MO018-055----
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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
It is situated in a valley at the bottom of a N and NW-facing slope and on the E side of an area of grass and scrub-covered rock outcrop (max. H 2.5-3m). There is a SE-NW section of a stream c. 5m to the NE, and it is known as Carraig an Aifrinn – the rock of the Mass. A shelf of rock outcrop (dims 1.4m NW-SE; 1.5m NE-SW; max. H 0.9-1m) faces NE with a rough ledge (dims c. 4m NW-SE; c. 3m NE-SW) in front of it that is c. 1m higher than the banks of the stream. It is marked on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and the megalithic tomb (MO018-012----) is c. 15m to the N, across the stream in Rakean townland. (Ó Gallachair 1957, 118)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 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
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 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.