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
- 52.34708, -8.47814
- SMR number
- LI056-017----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, immediately N of a track running roughly NE-SW and public road immediately to E. A souterrain (LI056-01----) lies 50m to the SSW. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Pillar Stone’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted standing immediately W of junction between farm trackway and public road. No surface remains of standing stone on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 24 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.