Mass Rock, mass-rock in County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Marked only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a scrub-covered fold on the steep N-facing slope of a deep W-E valley. There is a small arm-chair arrangement of stones and bedrock creating a shelf (Wth 0.8m; D 0.7m) which was known locally as a place where Mass was celebrated (OSFM 1940).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX006-027

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