Standing stone

The National Monuments Service's description

In former rocky pasture now surrounded by woodland, at the NE end of Lough Gur, which is located 415m to W. A standing stone also known as Leagaun (LI032-050----) stands 175m to NW; the Early Medieval settlement site known as the Spectacles (LI032-014012-) is located 550m to WNW; Bronze Age burials (LI032-055----) were excavated 75m to SW and Circle O (LI032-060----) is located 230m to SE.
The standing stone (LI032-051----) is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map, but is depicted as an antiquity, annotated 'Leagaun' on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map and Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 as the location of the monument is covered with woodland. The standing stone was listed by Windle (1912, 304, Plate XXIII) as Site Q. Described by O’Kelly (1944, 29) as following; ‘350’ [107m OD] a limestone pillar 4’ [1.22m] high and 1’ [0.3m] by 6” [0.15m] at the base. Part of ancient road.’ Grogan (1989, Vol. 2, 271) attached the site name ‘Lough Gur 3’ to the standing stone within his PhD thesis. The location of the site is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/04/2006 and 20/09/2020.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 16 November 2020

References

Windle, B. 1912 Megalithic remains surrounding
Lough Gur, Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal
Irish Academy 30C, 283–306.

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.

Grogan, E. 1989 The Early Prehistory of the Lough Gur Region: Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement patterns in North Munster, south of the River Shannon, 3 Vols. Doctoral PhD Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Archaeology, University College Dublin.