Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Eyon, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eyon
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.60405, -8.38974
- SMR number
- LI015-051----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Identified by archaeologist Celie O Rahilly in 1995 while preparing an EIS for a quarry extension. She noted "some large erratic boulders on the surface. It was not possible to examine these closely as they were separated by a boundary. They may be a natural formation or they may form an alignment of archaeological significance". In a further report in 1999, she wrote "it would now not be possible to examine this area as it is now backfilled". Extensive land clearance has taken place in this area and the feature described by O Rahilly is no longer evident.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 23 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.