Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
Grillagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grillagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49579, -8.54343
- SMR number
- LI032-161----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In improved pasture, 35m SSW of a dwelling house, 65m E of a watercourse and 70m E of a public road which also marks a townland boundary with Tullybracky. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Grogan (1989, 278-9) as a habitation site and labelled Grillagh 2 which he described as follows: 'flint artefacts, 7 scrapers and 9 miscellaneous artefacts associated with a coarse ware vessel found in a garden.' Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. The precise location of this monument cannot be confirmed as there is no access to thesis in the paper file.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 10 November 2020
References
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.
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.