Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
Glenanair West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenanair West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.30764, -8.54275
- SMR number
- LI056-052----
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 upland forestry plantation on the Ballyhoura Hills. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as the site of a stone circle by Joe Synott in 1990 and marked on a Map of Forestry Plantations in Ballyhoura Area. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages where area is covered in coniferous plantation.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 16 November 2021
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.