Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Grange (Smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (Smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cladh na Leac (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.51489, -8.53823
- SMR number
- LI032-010001-
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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
On the W side of Ardaghlooda, a rocky ridge overlooking Lough Gur, between 40-200m W of the lake. Located 220m E of the great stone circle at Grange (LI032-004001-) within a dense concentration of archaeological monuments including standings stones (LI032-009/010002-) located 45m W and 30m E of the road respectively. Incorporated into a historic field system (LI032-011003-) and between 120-175m W of three enclosures (LI032-011001/002/004-). The S end of the historic road abuts a megalithic structure (LI032-010003-).
The road is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch or the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch maps, although a field boundary (560m long) is illustrated running along the W side of the road. The historic road is annotated 'Cladh na Leac' on the Cassini OSi 6-inch map as slightly curving (orientated NNW-SSE; L 775m; Wth 8m). The road was described by Ó Ríordáin (1951, 39-40) as ‘a sunken track lined on both sides by boulders’. The road is clearly visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 as a linear sunken road lined on either side by a ditch. The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006; 16/03/2016; 20/03/2020 and 20/09/2020. The course of the road can be traced from Loughgur House (NIAH Reg. No. 21903205) on aerial photographs from its N end to the townland boundary in the S at Ballynagallagh. A separate section of the historic road survives in Ballynagallagh townland (LI032-041001-). The N end of the road appears to run from Loughgur House along a modern road on the S side of Grange Hill where it again can be traced as a field monument (LI023-241----) as far as the Camoge River. Lynch traces the road as far as Kilmallock (1951, 75).
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 3 November 2020
References
Lynch, J.F. 1919 Loch Gair. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 25, 69-79.
Ó Ríordáin, S.P. 1951 Lough Gur excavations: the
great stone circle (B) in Grange townland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 54C, 37-74.
Nearby in the register
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.