Mass-rock in Knocks West, County Monaghan

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What is recorded here

Located at a break in slope on a S-facing slope and on the E side of a NNE-SSW field bank. In the 1960s the landowner and a local priest built a concrete wall around the mass-rock, which is still present creating a bay (dims 1.05m NE-SW; 0.7m NW-SE; H 0.7m) open to the SE and with the stump of an iron cross still present, but the mass rock is no longer present. (Ó Gallachair 1957, 117) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 3 November, 2016

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO021-013

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