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Mass-rock

Creeve (Cremorne By., Aghnamullen Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mass-rock, Creeve (Cremorne By., Aghnamullen Par.), 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
Creeve (Cremorne By., Aghnamullen Par.)
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.09608, -6.89462
SMR number
MO024-042----

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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

Located at the summit of a hill, and just below the top of a N-facing cliff of rock outcrop (H c. 3m). At the foot of the cliff is a ledge (Wth 1.5-2m; L c. 6m) that has a slight barrier of lower rock outcrop (Wth c. 3m; max. ext. H c. 5m) to the N, and a farmhouse that was immediately to the NW has been removed. It was known as ‘The Altar Rock’ (Ó Gallachair 1957, 108) and in the cliff-face there is a ledge (L 1m; Wth 0.2-0.3m; H 1m) that could serve as an altar.

See the attached image _1 from W

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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