Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Curraghmore (kilmastulla Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghmore (kilmastulla Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mass Rock
- Coordinates
- 52.80953, -8.36778
- SMR number
- TN025-097----
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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
In rough poorly drained pasture overlooking stream to W which marks townland boundary with Roran. Ringfort (TN025-042----) 75m to SE. Large roughly rectangular shaped boulder (H 1.2m) known locally as a 'Mass Rock' (pers. comm. Derek Ryan). Local folklore collected between 1937-38 by Mary O'Brien of Curraghmore, a pupil of Boher School, Bushfield, Nenagh ,recorded the following; 'There is also a Mass Rock in our farm. It is surrounded by hills on every side but there is no story known about it' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0538, Page 312; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922156/4856787)
See attached photographs provided by Derek Ryan
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Derek Ryan
Date of upload: 21 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.