Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ardkilmartin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardkilmartin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloghaleagaun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghaleagaun (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.40975, -8.56342
- SMR number
- LI047-025----
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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
In pasture, 370m S of Ahatrishnaun Stream, 125m E of a road annotated 'Bohereennaderrymore' on OSi historic maps. Site of standing stone annotated 'Cloghaleagaun' on OSi maps which was removed c. 1998 (SMR File; Grogan 1989, Vol. 2, 267). No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Described in the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books as 'Cloch a Liagáin, the standing or pillar stone. The name of a large stone or rock' (OSNB Parish of St Peter & Paul, 1579).
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 August 2021
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.