Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Grange (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloghavilla
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloch á bhíle (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.51348, -8.54110
- SMR number
- LI032-007----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on flat grassland with good views in all directions, 260m W of Lough Gur in an area with a large concentration of prehistoric monuments. Grange embanked stone circle (LI032-004001-) is visible 60m to NNW, an ancient roadway known as Cladh na Leac (LI032-010001-) running N-S lies 200m to E, with a megalithic structure (LI032-010003-) 200m to SSE. Standing stone described by O'Kelly (1944, 46) as a 'large boulder of volcanic breccia measuring 5' [1.5m] high, 8'm [2.4m] long and 4' [1.2m] thick'. Standing stone marked on OS 6-inch map as 'Cloch á bhíle' meaning 'the stone of the sacred tree'. In 1895 it was suggested that this stone may have been used as an inauguration site for the kings of Munster (Lynch 1895, 299).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 July 2018
References
Lynch, J. F. 1895 Lough Gur. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1, 241-258, 289-302.
O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - embankedunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.