Mass Garden, mass-rock in County Monaghan

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What is recorded here

Situated on a little col with higher ground to the NW, E and S, lower ground to the W and a small S-N stream valley just to the E. The mass-rock was in a small mass-garden, which was a small rectangular field (dims c. 65m NE-SW; c. 35m NW-SE) described as a Mass Garden o the 1834 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but it is now occupied by houses. The mass-rock was placed between the masonry gate-piers into the mass-garden c. AD 1990. It is a rectangular stone (dims 1-1.05m x 0.55-0.6m; H 0.6m) set on a cement base with three steps leading down to the road. (Ó Gallachair 1957, 113) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 June, 2016

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO014-046

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Fintan McTiernan; published by Monaghan GAA, www.flickr.com
Maker not stated on source page, au.pinterest.com
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
James O'Neill, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Deadstar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Maker not stated on source page, www.geograph.ie
Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com

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