Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Greaghlatacapple, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greaghlatacapple
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01433, -6.82884
- SMR number
- MO027-116----
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 tip of a S-N spur on the N-facing slope of a hill. This is a subrectangular piece of rock outcrop (dims 6m N-S; 5m E-W at N; 2.5m E-W at S; H 0.5-1m) that is highest the SW corner where there is an indentation (dims 1.2m N-S; 0.7m) with a small shelf (H 0.7m) that serves as an altar. It is known as ‘Carraig na h-Altóra’ (Ó Gallachair 1957, 121) and was conserved in AD 2000 with a commemorative plaque. Mass is celebrated annually around the end of July.
See the attached images _1 from NE; _2 from S
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.