Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Killary, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killary
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84386, -8.40753
- SMR number
- TN019-049----
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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
Embedded in the E face of a field boundary which runs alongside a small stream running N-S in mountain valley. A large limestone boulder (H 0.8m; Wth 1m; T 0.4m) known locally as a mass-rock (Griffin and Griffin 2000, 41).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.