Situated just off the crest of an E-facing slope with a low lying basin extending to the E, and on the W side of a NNW-SSE, stone-faced field bank. Fr. Nicholas Meyler was murdered on Christmas morning 1653 while celebrating Mass (Grattan Flood 1915, 67), and Mass is celebrated every year at the location on Christmas morning to commemorate the event. The mass-rock, a small stone (dims c. 0.4m x c. 0.3m) with a decoration like a three-pointed leaf cut into one face was re-discovered at the location c. 1982 (Murphy 1983-4) and it is now installed beneath a limestone slab (dims 0.8m x 0.45m; T 3cm) on a shelf (H 0.48m) at the W side of the field bank and in a hollow (diam. c. 4m) of the dry field drain. (Murphy 1983-4)
162209,WX03388,MARO,WX025-052—-,WEXFORD,BALLINAVARY,R144404,692557,633369,52.443943630000000,-6.638521170000000,Mass-rock,Not indicated,Not indicated,https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX025-052—-,Situated at the bottom of a steep SE facing scarp down to the flood plain of the SW-NE Boro River

Monument Type: Mass-rock

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