Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Tomhaggard, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tomhaggard
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21218, -6.49202
- SMR number
- WX047-167----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Situated just off the crest of an E-facing slope with a low lying basin extending to the E, and on the W side of a NNW-SSE, stone-faced field bank. Fr. Nicholas Meyler was murdered on Christmas morning 1653 while celebrating Mass (Grattan Flood 1915, 67), and Mass is celebrated every year at the location on Christmas morning to commemorate the event. The mass-rock, a small stone (dims c. 0.4m x c. 0.3m) with a decoration like a three-pointed leaf cut into one face was re-discovered at the location c. 1982 (Murphy 1983-4) and it is now installed beneath a limestone slab (dims 0.8m x 0.45m; T 3cm) on a shelf (H 0.48m) at the W side of the field bank and in a hollow (diam. c. 4m) of the dry field drain. (Murphy 1983-4)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 Octiber, 2013
References
Murphy, H. 1983-4 Discovering the mass rock. Kilmore Parish Journal No. 12, 40.
Flood, W.H. Grattan 1915 Notes towards a parochial history of the Diocese of Ferns. Waterford. Downey and Co.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Mass-houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.