Mass-rock in Knocks West

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

A mass-rock associated with Catholic worship during the Penal Days in Ireland, when public celebration of the Catholic Mass was forbidden. Such sites were often linked to local saints or used as places of refuge and spiritual resistance.