What is recorded here

Mass-rock in Cooleenlemane, County Cork, is a large outcrop at the end of a U-shaped valley where worship may have continued beneath risk. Sheep shelter in its cracks today, but the name preserves a chamber built from valley, shadow and defiance.

At end of U-shaped valley, on natural rise to W of Cooleenlemane River. Large rock outcrop, now used as a sheep shelter but traditionally known as 'mass rock'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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