The site has never been precisely located, which is fitting in a way, because the whole point of a mass-rock was that it should be hard to find.

Mass-rocks were makeshift outdoor altars used by Catholic communities during the Penal Law era, when the public practice of Catholicism was severely restricted in Ireland and priests risked imprisonment or worse by celebrating the sacraments. Congregations would gather at remote, sheltered spots, often with lookouts posted on high ground, to attend Mass in secret. The rocks themselves were rarely elaborate, sometimes just a flat stone or, as here, a small arrangement of stones gathered together in a natural depression. The holly screen at Uragh would have offered both concealment and, for many, a quietly resonant setting, holly being a tree long associated in Irish tradition with protection. The site is documented by Gallogly, writing in the mid-1990s, who recorded the local knowledge of it, though by then the woodland had already swallowed whatever more precise sense of location once existed within living memory.

The undulating, southward-sloping character of the landscape around Uragh is still recognisable, even if the monument within it remains elusive. That elusiveness is itself part of what these sites carry: a quality of deliberate obscurity that was once a matter of survival, and that has never entirely lifted.