Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Ballinlyna Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlyna Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pillar Stone (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.35507, -8.48668
- SMR number
- LI056-012----
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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, 145m E of townland boundary with Ballygeagoge. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Pillar Stone’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Standing stone listed by Grogan (1989, 268) in Ballynlyna Lower townland. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 23 November 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
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- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
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