Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Legan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Legan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Altar
- Coordinates
- 53.81563, -7.99845
- SMR number
- RO024-012----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the top of the E-facing slope of a NNE-SSW ridge at its N end. A natural shelf of rock outcrop (H 1.2m) with a small wooden cross where a commemorative Mass was celebrated on the last Sunday of August up to the 1980s. (Coyle 1994, 17-19)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Coyle, L. 1994 A parish history of Kilglass, Slatta, Roosky. Kilglass Gaels GAA Club. (Printer Roscommon Herald, Boyle)
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.