Mass-rock in Coolmountain, County Cork

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What is recorded here

This is '…what is known as "The Mass Altar"' (Anon. 1994, 6) and comprises a flat slab of rock (c. 3m x 1.2m; T 0.4m) which lies level with the SSE-sloping ground. The upper surface of the slab is level but there is a drop on its S side where it is supported towards either end by two orthostatic blocks. There is a chamber-like area (D 0.6m) dug out from under the slab between the supports. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO093-011002

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Berthold Strucken, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
PST Sport, installation contractor; individual aerial photographer not named, pstsport.com

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