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Clearing the field for the harvest may have buried the altar and the women may have stopped coming when the water rose, yet the flat slab still faces south across the Ballaghdoo floodplain like a table set for someone absent. Its shallow Brigid's lines have worn almost to nothing, but they remain enough to keep the stone separate from the ordinary rocks around it. The Spanish Church lies a short distance through the grass, its ruined walls sharing the same wet field and the same forgotten purpose.

Mass Rock at base of S facing low hillock on the floodplains of the Ballaghdoo River located immediately to the E. This monument consists of a flat slab (L 1m; Wth 0.6m; T 0.1m) resting on several support stones forming an altar structure which was 0.25m high above the ground. This slab is known locally as the mass rock (pers. comm. S O'Beirne). The faintest remains of incised lines can be traced on the surface of the mass rock and these appear to be forming a crude St. Brigid's Cross although this identification is not certain. The remains of an 18th century church known as the Spanish Church can be seen in the same field 70m to the NW of the mass rock. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010

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