Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Balleek, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balleek
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32227, -7.48392
- SMR number
- OF009-016----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
No surface remains of any mass rock in the area marked on the OS 6-inch map. Described as a mass-rock by Davies in 1942 who describes 'in a small valley. The rock is either a rock outcrop or a large limestone boulder, and beside it are pile some other stones. I do not think that it is an old megalith. On S, is a small recess in the rock, and on W is a ledge. On the rock grows a crabapple' (ITA Survey 1942).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.