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).
156984,WM01788,MARO,WM024-008001-,WESTMEATH,MULLAGHCLOE,R165300,622688,749750,53.497264270000002,-7.658062290000000,Mass-rock,Not indicated,’Altar’,https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM024-008001-,This monument was described by J. Mc Cabe in 1971 as ‘it consists of roughly mortared uncoursed masonry with a dressed stone flag and concrete forming a flat top. Rising almost vertically from the back of the altar is some rough mortared masonry forming a facing to the scarp which was made when digging into the side of the rise when erecting the altar. Embedded in the masonry is a broken fragment of a dressed flag with part of an illegible inscription. The site is enclosed by a wire fence with a wooden gate in front of the altar. An iron cross stands in the top of the masonry at the back of the altar’ (ASI file 1971). The site was revisited in 1984 and described as ‘The altar has deteriorated since visited in 1971. The cross is gone; the gate is broken and in general the site is overgrown and neglected. The inscribed slab is of limestone 52cm x 42 cm and according to local informants it commemorates a priest

Monument Type: Mass-rock

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