
What is recorded here
Mass Rock is a mass-rock in Rathbarran, County Sligo, Ireland. A flat-topped boulder measuring 1.3 metres by 1.4 metres and rising 0.75 metres sits in the ditch at the north-north-east of the Rathbarran barrow. Local people identify it as a mass rock, a classification likely dating from after 1700 AD when Penal Laws suppressed public Catholic worship.
Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Mass Rock'. In the fosse at the NNE of Rathbarran barrow (SL025-071001-) is a large boulder (1.3m x 1.4m; H 0.75m). It is known by the people in the locality as a mass-rock. The classification mass-rock is likely to be post-1700 AD in date.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 11 January 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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