Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Drumgoosat, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumgoosat
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95394, -6.77918
- SMR number
- MO030-049----
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 in pasture on the floor of a small N-S stream c. 25m SE of NE-SW section of the stream. This is a rectangular stone (dims 0.75m x 0.35m; H 0.4m) with two whitethorn trees growing over it. A commemorative Mass was celebrated here c. 1980, and it is well known locally, although not mentioned by the sources (Ó Gallachair 1957).
See the attached image _1 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
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.