What is recorded here

Behind the Hollimshill graveyard, a wide deep dyke once ringed a flat mass-rock where worship continued during the Penal Days. The ditch has vanished now, filled and forgotten, but the rock remains the centre of a hidden chamber built by human defiance.

Unlocated ditch which enclosed a mass-rock (OF024-035001-) within the townland of Holimshill (Shaw Rev, 1971, 63). The site was described by Revd. Shaw as, located 'behind the graveyard (OF024-019001-), in former times, there was a wide and deep dyke with a flat rock (OF024-053001-) at its centre on which it is said, Mass was offered in the Penal Days. This dyke has been filled in for some years' (Sahw 1973, 63). 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/revision: 29 December 2011

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