Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Moorestown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moorestown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pillar Stone (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.36702, -8.44891
- SMR number
- LI048-061----
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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 wet pasture, 55m N of Loobagh river that forms townland boundary with Garrynlease and 100m SW of townland boundary with Killeen. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and 1897 ed. 25-inch map. Annotated ‘Pillar Stone’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Standing stone listed by Grogan (1989, 272) in Moorestown townland.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 18 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.