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Standing stone

Ballynagallagh, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Ballynagallagh, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballynagallagh
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Pillar (site of) (1927)
Coordinates
52.50574, -8.53411
SMR number
LI032-041003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

No surface remains visible of the site of a standing stone which stood on the E side of an ancient roadway known locally as 'Cladh na Leac' (LI032-041001-). The site is annotated as 'Pillar (site of)' on the 1927 map. A cairn or burial mound (LI032-041002-) known locally as 'The Hero's Grave' is annotated on the 1927 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown standing beside the standing stone. A megalithic tomb known as 'Leaba-na-muice' (LI032-046----) lies 315m to NNE, the church (LI032-043002-) and graveyard (LI032-043003-) of Mainister na Galliagh (Monastery of the Nun's) lies 190m to E, a megalithic structure annotated as a 'Giant's Grave' (LI032-045001-) stands 210m to S.
In 1913 the following account was recorded; 'A pillar stone and a burial mound (LI032-041002-) stand about 300 yards south-west of the Leaba-na-muice (LI032-046----) in this townland, and there is also a second dolmen here, and two others to the south near the houses of Messrs. Leo and Leahy, along the line called Cladh na leac (LI032-041001-)' (Lynch 1913, 12). Today there are no surface remains visible of any standing stone in the area marked on the OS 6-inch map.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 5 July 2018

References

Lynch, J.F. 1913 Antiquarian remains at Lough Gur. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 19, 8-22.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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