Grange

210 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange, from 26 m² to 672,328 m² (67.23 ha, 166.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 52 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Grange in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 1 Sept 2026N/a

  a new detached garage. Amendments to the existing front elevation of the original dwelling with the removal of the front porch and installation of a new window and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 26198

• 12 May 2026Refused

  a new detached garage. Amendments to the existing front elevation of the original dwelling with the removal of the front porch and installation of a new window and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 26125

• 20 Feb 2026Conditional

  construction of a new dressing rooms, viewing area and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660180

• 16 Jan 2026Conditional

  the demolition of a) existing single storey extension to side of existing dwelling house and b) an outbuilding to the rear of the house, the construction of an extension to the rear of existing dwelling house, installation of a new upgraded wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660028

• 25 Jun 2025Conditional

  a change of house design from what was previously granted under planning ref. 23/481 and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25210

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  the demolition of existing outbuilding and single storey extension at the rear of the existing dwelling house, the construction of a single storey extension to existing dwelling house, elevational changes to existing dwelling house, the installation of a wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, alterations to existing vehicular entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24479

• 15 Oct 2024Conditional

  the construction of a scout den building and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24400

• 28 Aug 2024Conditional

  a partially constructed dwelling to sub-floor level, permission for the construction of a dwelling house with a change of house design from that previously permitted under planning application reference 08/121 and to complete the dwelling. Permission for the installation of a septic tank and percolation area and the construction of a detached domestic garage

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460860

• 16 Aug 2024Conditional

  the construction of an agricultural slatted shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24326

• 5 Jul 2024N/a

  the construction of a scout den building and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24267

• 3 May 2024N/a

  the change of design from that previously granted permission under planning ref: 23/296, with the new building to be used by Bruff Scouts 29th Limerick and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24188

• 4 Oct 2023Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23481

• 27 Sept 2023Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to existing dwelling house, domestic garage, installation of a new upgraded domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, erection of recessed wing walls to improve existing vehicular entrance, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360709

• 27 Jul 2023Conditional

  the removal of existing septic tank and percolation area and the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area to existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360537

• 27 Jul 2023Conditional

  a revision of the site boundaries, new entrance, demolition of existing substandard cottage and shed, construction of a replacement single storey dwelling house, installation of wastewater treatment system & percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360536

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  a new workshop building and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23296

• 11 Oct 2021Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211412

• 24 Sept 2021Conditional

  a revision to the permitted governing planning permission ref. 20/558 for a new vehicular entrance in lieu of the previously granted vehicular entrance onto a shared access way

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211332

• 5 Mar 2021N/a

  construction of a single storey dwelling house, entrance, driveway, mechanical wastewater unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21268

• 23 Feb 2021Refused

  construction of a single storey dwelling house, entrance, driveway, mechanical wastewater unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21208

• 16 Dec 2020Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, septic tank & percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201355

• 26 Jun 2020Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, separate stables & tack room, waste water treatment system, polishing filter, entrance onto existing shared vehicular access way and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20558

• 4 Nov 2019Conditional

  construction single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling and all ancillary site work and Retention Permission is also sought for a mobile home on site for duration of build

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 191086

• 28 Aug 2019Conditional

  the construction of a single storey detached dwelling, entrance, driveway, waste water treatment system with associated percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19852

• 19 Oct 2018N/a

  a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 181023

The 25 most recent of 29 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gur 000437

Recorded monuments

• LI023-064 Earthwork
  Description

  In improved pasture, on a gentle N-facing slope, N of Grange Hill and NW of Knockfennell, 60m NW of the townland boundary with Knockfennell. A ring-barrow (LI023-230----) lies 140m to ENE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 46m). Monument identified as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3642). Monument visible as a suboval-shaped earthwork (75m NE-SW; 42m NW-SE) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. The earthwork has the appearance of a quarry rather than an archaeological enclosure on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 28 August 2020

• LI023-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wet pasture, 40m SW of a tributary of the Camoge River, which marks the townland boundary with Ballingoola. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 30m) with a small subcircular-shaped feature annotated ‘Well’, 25m to NW. Listed by O’Kelly (1944, 46) as earthwork Type A with a possible hut site or barrow in the SE quadrant. Excavated in 1948 by Ó Ríordáin and MacDermott and described as a ringfort which contained a hut site with entrance at W (1949, 127-34). This monument prior to excavation was described as following; 'The ring-fort was marked by ditch and bank; the slight traces of an outer bank which excavation revealed in places were not visible before excavation. The outline was not regularly circular, the bank on north and south-east being almost straight in places; the average diameter, including ditch, was about 32m. The entrance on the west was apparent as a gap between the ends of the ditch was not evident. The bank was low - the difference between surface of ditch and top of bank varying between 50 cm and 80 cm. Between the centre of the site and the bank on the south-east a low mound, in which was an irregular hollow, indicated the site of a hut, the structural features of which became apparent on excavation' (Ó Ríordáin and MacDermott 1949, 127-8). The area excavated comprised the entrance, a considerable portion of the interior, sections through the bank and ditch, and trial cuttings outside the latter mainly to trace the outer bank. The hut site (approx. diam. 5m) was described as following; 'On excavation the position of this, hut was clearly it was found to have stood on a spread of clay which formed a floor, average thickness about 20cm, extending from beyond the centre to the bank on the east of the hut. No trace of upright posts nor any post-hole for such was entrance to the hut on the north-west was marked by a gap band, across which lay some charred wood in which the direction could be noted representing remains of either lintel or threshold. was the only place in which the remains of any piece of timber could be traced. While there were indications of a central hearth in the hut, large stones to the north-west and a burnt area to the east of the surface of the clay floor show that fires were also lighted in the open. We can now see that the fort was built to enclose a single dwelling and that the clay floor which was made at the same time .s the bank of the fort served not only to provide a foundation for the dwelling, but also to give a drier and somewhat more comfortable working area in the neighbour hood of the hut than did the peat surface elsewhere. The building of the ditch and bank would have served, however, to give slightly drier conditions inside than those which prevailed in the surrounding field. The placing of the entrance on the west side was evidently dictated by the same considerations, since it faced rising ground which would have given it a firmer approach'(ibid. 129-32). Outline of monument visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 . Outline of D-shaped enclosure (approx. int. dims. 17m N-S x 19m E-W) with straight side (L. 15m) at N visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016. Faint outline of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. and contour plan taken from Ó Ríordáin and MacDermott Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 28 August 2020

• LI023-109 Standing stone
  Description

  In scrub, on W-facing slope of a hill (357ft/109m). Enclosure (LI023-062----) lies 70m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Grogan (1989 Vol. 2, 270) as a standing stone which e listed in his thesis as Grange No. 3. Location of monument is obscured by scrub on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 30 August 2020

• LI023-227 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On the N side of a ridge with good views N, E and W. Located 30m SW of the historic road/trackway (LI023-241----) overlooking the Camoge River 580m to N. Cave site (LI023-240----) 270m to S near the summit of the ridge. The barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps but is visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 118; AP 4/3665) as a circular ring–barrow (ext. diam. c. 15m) defined by a fosse. The N side of the barrow abuts an E-W field boundary. The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/04/2006, 16/03/2016 and 28/06/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing ring-barrow labelled Bruff 118 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 25 August 2020

• LI023-228 Field system
  Description

  On flat elevated ground with good views in all directions. The site is located 650m S of the Camoge River and the townland boundary with Friarstown South. Cave site (LI023-240----) 700m to W. The field system is not illustrated on historic OSi maps and underlies and predates the current field boundaries that are depicted on the OSi 1840 ed. 6-inch map. The field systems are visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 122 AP 4/3642) as a rectangular enclosure (ext. diam. 40m N-S; 30m E-W) within a field system that is aligned NNW-SSE and ENE-WSW, further parallel and perpendicular relic field boundaries are visible to the S and W. The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimages 28/05/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing monument labelled Bruff 122, Digital Globe orthoimages and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 31 August 2020

• LI023-230 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On flat pasture on the E side of a ridge. The site is located 250m W of the townland boundary with Ballingoola, 80m NE of the enclosure (LI023-064----) and 180m SW of a ringfort (LI023-068----). The barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps but is faintly visible feature on Digital Globe orthoimage. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 as ‘not clear on AP’ (Bruff 123; AP 4/3642). A faint circular ring–barrow defined by an external fosse (ext. diam. c. 11m) is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 16/03/2016 and 28/06/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing ring-barrow labelled Bruff 123 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 31 August 2020

• LI023-240 Cave
  Description

  In dense gorse on the lower NW-facing slope of Grange Hill at 91m OD. The cave penetrates a limestone knoll and is located at almost the highest point in the local landscape with panoramic views to the SW, W and NW. An enclosure (LI023-062----) lies 15m to SE and a standing stone (LI023-109----) 70m to W. Lough Gur (LI032-022001-/37) is not visible from the cave, it is 1.5km to S. The entrance to the cave is depicted on the OSi 1840 ed. 6-inch map 60m W of the summit of the hill at 109m OD. The entrance is not depicted on later historic OSi maps and is not visible on OSi orthoimages. Grange Hill comprises a natural simple single-chambered limestone cave facing W (int. dims. L 5.8m E-W; entrance H 2.7m; rear H 1.8m; entrance Wth 6m N-S; rear Wth 2m N-S). The cave was formerly described as ‘permanently waterlogged’ (O’Kelly 1944, 47), though it was not waterlogged in 2003. Prof. M.J. O'Kelly recorded the discovery of a hoard of axes in this cave in 1917 or 1918. Two of the axes have been identified; one, a miniature porcellanite axe (7.6cm long), was brought to UCC Dept. of Archaeology; the second axe (26.7cm long) was a family heirloom in possession of the landowners (Dowd 2015, 114-5). The cave entrance appears to have been partly quarried in the late 19th or early 20th century. The location of the site is visible as a densely overgrown area on a Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. The enclosure (LI023-262---) mistakenly identified as a 'Fort' by O'Kelly (1942, 46) is in fact the depiction of the cave entrance on the OSi 1840 ed. 6-inch map. Therefore the cave site (LI023-240----) and the enclosure (LI023-262----) are the same monument. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 1 September 2020

• LI023-241 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  On the N side of a ridge with good views N, E and W. Located 30m NE of a ring-barrow (LI023-227----) overlooking the Camoge River 580m to N. Cave site (LI023-240----) 270m to S near the summit of the ridge. The S end of the road/trackway (L c. 250m) is not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map, although the NW end (L c. 250m) still survived as a tree lined road on the 1840 map and as a field boundary on the later OSi 1897 ed. 25-inch map. The road is clearly visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and also on aerial photographs (GSIAP AP 4/3665) as a linear road lined on either side by a ditch and fosse (ext. Wth c. 15m). The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. The road/trackway appears to be an extension of the 'Cladh na Leac' a historic road (LI032-010001-) that runs along the W side of Lough Gur. See attached Bruff survey image showing road/trackway and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 31 August 2020

• LI032-001001 Bawn
  Description

  The Bawn or enclosure that surrounds Grange Castle is formed on a distinct rock outcrop on which Grange Castle (LI032-001002-) once stood. The castle enclosure is located 40m E of the townland boundary with Grange and 840m W of Lough Gur. The rock outcrop and castle site are depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and are also depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where the rock outcrop is illustrated as a roughly sub-rectangular rock formation (ext. dims. c. 100m N-S; 22m E-W). The rock is identified on the OSi Cassini 6-inch map as 'Cathair Chinn Chon', which was one of the seats of the King of Cashel (O'Kelly 1944, 51). According to Lynch (1895, 251) this rock was called 'Grange Rock' and that the stones from Grange Castle were used in the construction of Raheen House located 460m to the SW (ibid.). There are conflicting claims as to the location of Cathair Chinn Chon, O'Donovan identified it as a stone fort or cashel standing near Rockbarton, the residence of Lord Guillamore (Lynch 1917, 231). In spite of this, the rock outcrop is likely to have been a focus for settlement prior to the construction of the castle and was almost certainly a focus for outbuildings around the castle tower whilst it was in use. The site is covered is scrub woodland and is visible as heavily overgrown rock outcrop on Google Earth orthoimages taken 16/03/2016; 28/06/2018 and 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• LI032-001002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Grange Castle situated on top of rock outcrop identified by the OS as 'Ceathair Chinn Chon, one of the seats of the King of Cashel' (O'Kelly 1944, 51). According to Lynch (1895, 251) this rock was called 'Grange Rock' and that the stones from Grange Castle were used in the construction of Raheen House located 460m to the SW (ibid.). On the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map Raheen House is annotated as 'in ruins'. Cathair Chinn Chon was identified by O'Donovan as a stone fort or cashel standing near Rockbarton, the residence of Lord Guillamore (Lynch 1917, 231). Castle described in 1840 as following; 'situated on the top of a solid rock about thirty five feet [10.6m] high, are the remains of an old Castle the walls of which are very much injured. The length outside was about forty feet [12m] and the breadth about thirty feet [9m] but on account of the shattered conditions of its walls its dimensions inside cannot be taken nor even outside with any precision. The west wall remains to the height of about ten feet [3m] and small portions of the rest of the walls also remain; these walls were about six and a half feet [1.9m] in thickness and built of rather small grouted limestones. The rock on which this Castle was erected is called in the Name Book Cahercon Rock, but this name I could not find known to the inhabitants, who say that, Carraig A Mhéara (Mhiara) is the name of the Rock' (OSL vol. 2, 34). Castle described by Westropp (1906-7, 179) as following; '1186 It is one of the "Granges" of Magio (Nahava, Coracoimgillain, Naglochmib, Cathercornii, Loc Geir, which belongs to the village of Loc Geir, Camuis and Imlevi), and is probably that of Loc Geir (charter). 1348-9 The Abbot of Magio accounts for issues of lands in Grangehawe (Gransha) in the king's hands by attainder of Maur., Earl of Desmond (Pipe R., 13). 1583 Graunsha de Lough (Gur), or Castleanedroyde (Peyton, p. 10). 1655 Grangew, Lord Bath (C.S., xxxi., p. 15). Fabric. Foundations 40 feet [12m] by 30 feet [9m] over all, and fragments 10 feet [3m] high and 6½ feet [1.9m] thick; on Carriganilea Rock (O.S.L., 8, p. 96). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 March 2019

• LI032-002 Stone circle - embanked
  Description

  National monument No. 247. The levelled possible embanked stone circle with adjoining megalithic structure (LI032-003----) is located in grassland 550m W of Lough Gur with Limerick-Cork road immediately to E. According to Professor Robert Harkness (1869, 389-90) the monument was levelled some time in the early 1830s during the construction of the adjoining Limerick-Cork mail road. This levelled monument is located in an area with a large concentration of prehistoric monuments. Two standing stones (LI032-009-/010002-) lie 255m and 340m respectively to the NE, two stone circles (LI032-006----/005) lie 150m to E, a roadway depicted as 'Cladh na Leac' (LI032-010001-) running roughly N-S lies 375m to E. Grange embanked stone circle (LI032-004001-) with site of megalithic structure depicted as Dolmen (Site of) (LI032-004002-) stands 150m to SSE, a standing stone marked as 'Cloch á bhíle' stands 275m to SSE with a levelled megalithic structure (LI032-010003-) depicted as 'Giants Grave (Site of) lies 465m to SSE. Grange Castle (LI032-001002-) and Cathar Chinn Chon (LI032-001002-) stands 215m to W. No monument is depicted at this location on the first edition Ordnance Survey [OS] 6-inch map. However on the revised 1927 edition OS map, the monument is hachured as an oval-shaped platform which is annotated by the OS as a 'Stone Circle (Site of)' with a 'Stone Avenue' (LI032-003----) immediately to SSE depicted as a small oval shaped setting of 7 orthostats. Harbison (1970, 155) suggested that the monument may have been the remains of a megalithic tomb. However in 1869 Professor Harkness described the site as a stone circle which had been partially destroyed during the construction of the adjoining Limerick-Cork mail road. He recorded the following details about this monument: ‘A short distance N.W of these three circles (LI032-005-/006-/004001), and in a field adjoining the Limerick high-road, there are other traces of prehistoric remains. These occur in the form of a few large blocks of stone arranged in a double row (LI032-003----). They may have originally formed the western side of the large imperfect circle, having been removed from thence when the road was being made. There is also in the same field a large cup-shaped depression about 210 paces in diameter, but whether this is a natural or an artificial production there is not sufficient evidence at present to determine’ (Harkness 1869, 389-90). This cup-shaped depression may be a reference to an embanked stone circle. In 1895 the monument was described as following; ‘About one hundred and twenty yards north-west of the chief circle [LI032004001-], at the opposite side of the main road to Limerick, there is a cup-shaped circle with a diameter of two hundred and thirty feet. Not a stone is now left in this circle, the last having been taken away about sixty years ago. There are traces of this circle having been formerly surrounded by a rath. An avenue (LI032-003----) bordered on each side with stones much sunk in the ground, of which only thirteen are now left, meets the circle at the north-east side. The avenue is about thirty feet wide, but it narrows as it approaches the circles, and right in the middle of it, near the circle, there is a stone much buried in the ground. The stones are very irregularly placed, and some have been shifted from their original positions’ (Lynch 1895, 300). Today the outline of a roughly oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 85m N-S; 62m E-W) is visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. The S side of this levelled earthwork was intersected by a levelled field boundary depicted on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map. The outline of this monument is clearer on earlier OSI aerial photographs which shows a linear earthwork possibly a levelled field boundary running N-S across the E quadrant of the monument. The linear earthwork appears to be contemporaneous with similar earthworks running N-S to the NE and S of the monument. These earthworks may represent a small post-medieval field system or drainage channels of post-medieval date. Cultivation ridges running N-S are visible immediately S of the monument. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 May 2018

• LI032-003 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  National monument No. 247. A levelled possible embanked stone circle (LI032-003----) with adjoining megalithic structure to SSE is located in grassland 550m W of Lough Gur with Limerick-Cork road immediately to E. The megalithic structure annotated as a 'Stone Avenue' on the 1927 ed. OS 6-inch map and as a 'Stone Circle' on the OS 25-inch map is located in an area with a large concentration of prehistoric monuments. Two standing stones (LI032-009-/010002-) lie 255m and 340m respectively to the NE, two stone circles (LI032-006----/005) lie 150m to E, a roadway depicted as 'Cladh na Leac' (LI032-010001-) running roughly N-S lies 375m to E. Grange embanked stone circle (LI032-004001-) with site of megalithic structure depicted as Dolmen (Site of) (LI032-004002-) stands 150m to SSE, a standing stone marked as 'Cloch á bhíle' stands 275m to SSE with a levelled megalithic structure (LI032-010003-) depicted as 'Giants Grave (Site of) lies 465m to SSE. Grange Castle (LI032-001002-) and Cathar Chinn Chon (LI032-001002-) stands 215m to W. No monument is depicted at this location on the first edition Ordnance Survey [OS] 6-inch map. However on the revised 1927 edition OS map, the monument is depicted an oval-shaped area delimited by 7 orthostats and annotated as a 'Stone Avenue' immediately SSE of a levelled embanked stone circle (LI032-002----). On the 25-inch OS map the monument is depicted as an oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 20m NW-SE x 8m NE-SW) delimited by 11 orthostats with a single stone in NW quadrant and is now annotated as a 'Stone Circle'. In 1869 Professor Harkness described the site as following: ‘A short distance N.W of these three circles (LI032-005-/006-/004001), and in a field adjoining the Limerick high-road, there are other traces of prehistoric remains. These occur in the form of a few large blocks of stone arranged in a double row (LI032-003----). They may have originally formed the western side of the large imperfect circle, having been removed from thence when the road was being made. There is also in the same field a large cup-shaped depression about 210 paces in diameter, but whether this is a natural or an artificial production there is not sufficient evidence at present to determine’ (Harkness 1869, 389-90). This cup-shaped depression possibly described the remains of an embanked stone circle (LI032-002----). In 1895 the monument was described as following; ‘About one hundred and twenty yards north-west of the chief circle [LI032-004001-], at the opposite side of the main road to Limerick, there is a cup-shaped circle [LI032-002----) with a diameter of two hundred and thirty feet. Not a stone is now left in this circle, the last having been taken away about sixty years ago. There are traces of this circle having been formerly surrounded by a rath. An avenue (LI032-003----) bordered on each side with stones much sunk in the ground, of which only thirteen are now left, meets the circle at the north-east side. The avenue is about thirty feet [10m] wide, but it narrows as it approaches the circles, and right in the middle of it, near the circle, there is a stone much buried in the ground. The stones are very irregularly placed, and some have been shifted from their original positions’ (Lynch 1895, 300). Today the outline of a roughly oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 18m NW-SE; 7m NE-SW) delimited by low orthostats is visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. The outline of the levelled stone circle immediately to NW is also visible on this aerial photograph. It is unclear if this stone setting represents the kerbing of a robbed out megalithic tomb, or the remains of a stone circle or of a stone lined avenue defining the entrance into the interior of the adjoining embanked stone circle (LI032-002----). Cleary (2015, 51) suggested that this setting of orthostats may be remains of a court tomb based on its characteristic siting (Cooney and Grogan 1994, 64-5). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 May 2018

• LI032-004001 Stone circle - embanked
  Description

  National monument No. 247. Situated in grassland on top of low rise of ground 350m W of Lough Gur and surrounded by a cluster of prehistoric monuments. Two stone circles (LI032-005-/006----) in adjoining field to N, a trackway running NW-SE known as Cladh na Leac (LI032-010001-) 210m to E, site of standing stone known as Cloch á Bhíle (LI032-007----) 60m to SSE, site of Giant's Grave (LI032-010003-) possibly a megalithic structure 245m to SSE, site of a possible megalithic tomb/portal tomb (LI032-004002-) immediately to WSW, a trapezoidal setting of stones (LI032-002----) annotated as a 'Stone Avenue' which may be remains of a court tomb (Cleary 2015, 51) standing beside an embanked stone circle (LI032-003---) 120m to WNW. Embanked stone circle consisting of a slightly raised near perfect circular-shaped area (int. diam. 45.7m) defined by 113 contiguous orthostats (max. H 4m) serving as internal facing for a wide flat-topped earth and stone bank (Wth 9m; H 1-2m) with cobbled entrance gap (Wth 1m) at E flanked by tall orthostats ( H 2-2.2m), one of which (LI032-004003-) is decorated with passage-tomb style art recently identified by Ken Williams. The entrance to the circle is marked by the tallest stones and these are mirrored on the opposite side, creating an alignment on the midsummer moon (June 24) (Halpin and Newman 2006, 415). Facing the two entrance stone at WSW are two tall orthostats with tops sloping down to each forming a V-shaped notch. It has been suggested that the stones were aligned upon the early November sunset, the festival of Samhain (8 November) (Windle 1912, 287; Burl 1995, 238). The heaviest of the stones, a very large cube known as 'Rannach Croim Duibh' meaning 'the prominent black stone', weighing over twenty tons, was set at the NE towards the midsummer sunrise (ibid.). The stone circle was restored around the 1870's and new stones appear to have been erected over the decades, creating the 113 that are visible today (Cleary 2015, 52). In 1827 the stone circle was described as follows - measuring one 'hundred and thirty feet [39.6m] across. Only forty-three stones of various dimensions remain forming a perfect circle; some of them are very small, while one in the north-east part of the circle is seven feet and a half [2.3m] high by five [1.5m] in breadth ; nearly opposite to it stands another very little smaller. Many of the intermediate stones have been removed, and a part of the north side of the circumference has been much disturbed by a ditch lately made close to it. The whole of this southern circle is surrounded by a mound about fifteen feet [4.5m] broad and about four feet [1.2m] high, which skirts along the outside edge of the stones, enclosing the area within them as a pit of three or four feet [0.9-1.2m] deep' (Beaufort 1828, 139). Windle (1912, 288–91) recorded the existence of 113 orthostats forming the inner ring and also recorded that the entrance passage was discovered by ‘some men digging for treasure’ (1912, 287). The site, titled by Ó Riordáin, as the 'Great Stone Circle (B) was excavated in 1939, who found the outlines of up to five shallow, annular trenches in the interior. Ó Ríordáin (1951, 41–2) was of the opinion that most of the stones were original and recorded 113, of which six numbered stones (72, 77–79, 86 and 94) were indicated as modern insertions and 107 as original in the circle. He suggested that the entrance was only cleared of overgrowth and collapsed material and that there was ‘no indication of the fill having been disturbed’ (Ó Ríordáin 1951,48). Ó Ríordáin found that the bases of some of the circle stones were set in sockets, while other stones were standing on the old ground surface, supported by packing stones and gravel (Ó Ríordáin 1951, 45–6). Lithic finds from Ó Ríordáin’s 1939 excavation included about 400 struck stone artefacts, of which the majority were flint but which included about twenty chert fragments (Cleary 2015, 55). One barbed-and-tanged arrowhead can be dated to the Beaker period use of the site. A felsite stone axehead was recovered from the old ground surface, an axehead fragment was found at a hearth site under the bank, and a second axehead fragment was found in the gravel packing of one of the circle stones (ibid.). Beaker and Food Vessel pottery was recovered from depths of 0.15–0.28m below the modern surface but was recorded under the introduced layer and around the bases of the circle stones (ibid.). The available ceramic archive and the published report (Ó Ríordáin 1951, 64) present contradictory evidence, and show that Beaker pottery was not recovered from the old ground surface under the bank or from the intermediary turf lines within the bank. Roche (2004, 115) put forward a late Bronze Age construction date for Circle B based on her identification of the flat-based pottery recovered from a pre-bank turf horizon and the turf layers within the bank as late Bronze Age. She proposed that all other ceramic types (Neolithic, Beaker and Food Vessel pottery) represent pre-construction activity on the site and assumed that the earlier ceramics (Class I, Beaker and Food Vessel), which comprise the bulk of the ceramic assemblage, were residual from an earlier phase of site use. Excavation undertaken by Rose Cleary in 2012 attempted to establish the construction date of the earthen bank that encloses the stone circle. A single cutting, 8m (east/west) by 3.5m (north/south), was excavated through the bank in the SE quadrant. A narrower cutting, 0.5m wide (north/south) by 1.2m long (east/west), extended from the north-west corner of the trench to the back of stone 29. Her review of antiquarian accounts suggests that the site was remodelled in the late nineteenth century, when soil was added to the bank, the interior was levelled up and the circle stones were straightened. Three samples from the 2012 excavations and three from residues on pottery excavated by Ó Ríordáin in 1939 returned radiocarbon dates that range from 3020 to 2574 cal. BC (Cleary 2015, 51). The radiocarbon dates from the present study, including two on animal bone, one on ash charcoal from the 2012 excavation and on residues on pottery (1939 excavation) from the old ground surface and the intra-bank turf line, provide a time-frame for bank construction in the period 3020–2574 cal. BC. In addition to the radiocarbon evidence, the absence of Beaker pottery from under or in the bank also strongly suggests that the bank was in place prior to the use of Beaker ceramics. Roche’s (2004) revised late Bronze Age dating of Grange Stone Circle (B) can now, therefore, be dismissed (Cleary 2015. 65). Cleary (2015, 65-6) suggests the following phases of activity at Grange which may have seen activity as early as the mid-fourth millennium BC when the site use may have been intermittent and temporary. The next phase of use was the construction of the embankment. Radiocarbon and ceramic evidence presented here suggests that the construction phase of the embanked enclosure is within the date range 3020–2574 cal. BC, and further refinement may place construction near the beginning of the third millennium at 2950–2850 BC. The monument was subsequently used in the Beaker period. The 1939 Grange excavation also produced a number of Food Vessels (Ó Ríordáin 1951, 58), suggesting that activity at the site continued into the early Bronze Age. Ó Ríordáin’s excavation uncovered ‘five trenched enclosures’ (1951, 72) within Circle B which appear to be ring ditches without central mounds. These ring-ditches post-date the surface that was used by the builders of the site (Grooved Ware phase) and the Beaker-using people who subsequently used the site or may indeed have added the inner stone circle. The ring-ditches were subsequently covered by the nineteenth-century introduced infill layer (Cleary 2015, 66). This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 201

• LI032-004002 Megalithic structure
  Description

  Situated in grassland on top of low rise of ground 380m W of Lough Gur and surrounded by a dense concentration of prehistoric monuments (Cleary 2018). The great stone circle at Grange (LI032-004001-) is located 30m to NE. Two stone circles (LI032-005/006----) are in the adjoining field to the N and NNE, a trackway running NNW-SSE known as Cladh na Leac (LI032-010001-) is 305m to E, standing stone known as Cloch á Bhíle (LI032-007----) lies 105m to SE, site of Giant's Grave (LI032-010003-) is located 310m to SE and a trapezoidal setting of stones (LI032-002----) annotated as a 'Stone Avenue' which may be remains of a court tomb (Cleary 2015, 51) standing beside an embanked stone circle (LI032-003---) lies 155m to NW. The site is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map nor is it on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. It is shown on the Cassini OSi 6-inch map as ‘Dolmen (site of)’. The site is recorded in the Megalithic Survey of Ireland (De Valera and Ó Nualláin 1982, 77) as follows; ‘P. J. Lynch in the 1927 O.S. Name Book states that the monument was destroyed and that the exact position was pointed out to him by the former owner, the late Edward Fitzgerald. In 1895, Lynch called it a "Cromlech" and noted that Fitzgerald told him that he had heard that the tops of the supporting stones approached each other closely from the two sides and that a series of flags led northwards from it to the great excavated Stone Circle (LI032-004001-)’. The original form of the monument is not known and it has been referenced generally in many publications on the archaeology of Lough Gur (O’Kelly 1944, 45; Lynch 1895, 296). The site is in pasture 10m from the roadside hedge and is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 16/03/2016; 28/06/2018 and 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• LI032-004003 Passage tomb art (present location)
  Description

  Embanked stone circle (LI032-004001-; National Monument No. 247) with orthostat (int. H 1.02m; ext. H 0.5.; Wth 0.63m x T 0.36m) decorated with passage tomb art recently discovered by Ken Williams. Situated in grassland on top of low rise of ground 350m W of Lough Gur and surrounded by a cluster of prehistoric monuments. Two stone circles (LI032-005-/006----) in adjoining field to N, a trackway running NW-SE known as Cladh na Leac (LI032-010001-) 210m to E, site of standing stone known as Cloch á Bhíle (LI032-007----) 60m to SSE, site of Giant's Grave (LI032-010003-) possibly a megalithic structure 245m to SSE, site of a possible megalithic tomb/portal tomb (LI032-004002-) immediately to WSW, a trapezoidal setting of stones (LI032-002----) annotated as a 'Stone Avenue' which may be remains of a court tomb (Cleary 2015, 51) standing beside an embanked stone circle (LI032-003---) 120m to WNW. Embanked stone circle consisting of a slightly raised near perfect circular-shaped area (int. diam. 45.7m) defined by 113 contiguous orthostats (max. H 4m) serving as internal facing for a wide flat-topped earth and stone bank (Wth 9m; H 1-2m) with cobbled entrance gap (Wth 1m) at E flanked by tall orthostats ( H 2-2.2m), one of which (LI032-004003-) is decorated with passage-tomb style art recently identified by Ken Williams. The decorated stone is located on the NE side of the internal kerbing of the circle, and is the fourth stone to the W of the entrance into the circle. This orthostat was labelled Stone No. 9 by Ó Ríordáin (1951, Plate 1) on his plan of the embanked stone circle. Three of the four faces of the orthostat are decorated with concentric circles and other motifs while the plain fourth SW face looking in towards the centre of the circle appears to have been split and it surface is in stark contrast to the rounded surface of the other 3 faces. The carvings on the faces of the upright stone are truncated by the earthen bank. The motifs were described by Ken Williams as follows; 'The larger carved face [NE] is the back of the stone which features concentric circles c. 12cm and 22cm in diameter with a partial third ring. Above and below these concentric circles are smaller oval and U-shapes. On each side of the back face there are nested arcs carved where the face has angled planes leading towards the sides of the stone. Near the bottom edge of the visible surface on the right side of the back face is a deeply carved oval or U-shaped carving which is partly obscured by moss. On the south edge of the stone there are nested arcs and a possible oval shape, heavily weathered and difficult to see. On the north edge there are vertical parallel lines c. 30cm long, some of which may be joined nearer the base of the stone. There are very faint indications of horizontal lines across the top, extremely eroded and difficult to assess'. The only other stone (CO153-008---) decorated with passage-tomb art in Munster, was found c. 1880 in the townland of Croha West, Clear Island, Co. Cork, and possibly came from Killickaforavane passage tomb (CO153-010----). See attached photographs courtesy of Ken Williams and plan of stone circle showing stone no. 9 from Ó Ríordáin 1951, Plate 1. To see a 3D model of this carved stone visit: https://skfb.ly/oxs6R Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Ken Williams Date of upload: 23 August 2022

• LI032-005 Stone circle
  Description

  National monument No. 247. Situated in grassland ground 370m W of Lough Gur and surrounded by a cluster of prehistoric monuments. Stone circle (LI032-006----) immediately to NNE, a trackway running NW-SE known as Cladh na Leac (LI032-010001-) 215m to E, large embanked stone circle (LI032-004001----) immediately to S, site of standing stone known as Cloch á Bhíle (LI032-007----) 160m to SSE, site of Giant's Grave (LI032-010003-) possibly a megalithic structure 310m to SSE, site of a possible megalithic tomb/portal tomb (LI032-004002-) immediately to SSW, a trapezoidal setting of stones (LI032-002----) annotated as a 'Stone Avenue' which may be remains of a court tomb (Cooney and Grogan 1994, 64-5; Cleary 2015, 51) standing beside an embanked stone circle (LI032-003---) 70m to W. Depicted on first ed. OS 6-inch map as a semi-circular shaped area delimited by orthostats standing on the edge of a platform or low rise of ground. At least three stones of the circle survive today incorporated into the W field boundary that was a roadway on the first ed. OS 6-inch map. These surviving stones are depicted on the 25-inch OS map. The Ordnance Survey 6-inch map has incorrectly marked the location of this stone circle. Based on 19th century antiquarian reports the monument consisted of a circular-shaped area (diam. 52m) delimited by seventy-two orthostats the majority of which were removed in the 1830s. On the first ed. OS 6-inch map the stone circle is incomplete as it was intersected at W by a roadway running N-S which today survives as a field boundary. A line of roadside buildings are depicted on the E side, the remains of which are no longer visible. Originally the stone circle may have extended into the field to the W of this roadway. The stone circle was described in 1826 as ‘another circle fifty yards in diameter, consisting of seventy-two smaller stones standing’ (Fitzgerald ad McGregor 1826, 298). In 1840 the Ordnance Survey letters described the monument as following; ‘Fifty feet [15m] southwest of this circle [LI032-006----] there is a second, measuring one hundred and sixty feet [49m] in diameter. Sixty stones only are left, in some parts standing quite close together, in others a wide gap between. These stones are all abut three feet [0.9m] in height, and the ground around and within the circle is perfectly level’ (OSL 1840, 249). By 1895 most of the orhtostats had been removed and the stone circle was now described as; '‘About thirty yards due north of the chief circle [LI032-004001-] there is another circle with a diameter of one hundred and seventy feet [52m]. It has no rath, and only six pillar stones are left. In Fitzgerald's time [1820s] there were seventy-two stones in this circle, but about sixty-five years ago [1830s] it was destroyed by Mr. Edward Croker, of Grange. Ten yards east of this circle, and ninety-three yards from the gate of the chief circle, there is a third circle [LI032-006----], also without a rath’ (Lynch 1895, 300). On the revised 25 inch OS map only four orthostats survive upstanding on the W side of the stone circle. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 May 2018

• LI032-006 Stone circle
  Description

  National monument No. 247. Situated on slightly elevated grassland 370m W of Lough Gur and surrounded by a cluster of prehistoric monuments. Standing stones (LI032-009----/010002-) 147m and 210m to NNW, a trackway running NW-SE known as Cladh na Leac (LI032-010001-) 180m to E, large embanked stone circle (LI032-004001----) 90m to S, levelled stone circle (LI032-005----) immediately to SSW, standing stone known as Cloch á Bhíle (LI032-007----) 200m to SSE, site of Giant's Grave (LI032-010003-) possibly a megalithic structure 340m to SSE, site of a possible megalithic tomb/portal tomb (LI032-004002-) 160m to SSW, a trapezoidal setting of stones (LI032-002----) annotated as a 'Stone Avenue' which may be remains of a court tomb (Cooney and Grogan 1994, 64-5; Cleary 2015, 51) standing beside a levelled embanked stone circle (LI032-003---) 130m to W. Present remains consist of a slightly raised circular shaped area (diam. 17m) which may be the remains of a denuded mound enclosed by fifteen low orthostats of varying shapes with a wide gap at SSW and slight traces of an external bank. The presence of an outlying recumbent stone a few yards E of circle no longer survives. It has been suggested that the gap at SSW was created by the removal of two orthostats (O'Kelly and O'Kelly 1978, 13). Aerial photographs taken in 1966 show the stone circle enclosing a low central mound with the remains of an enclosing bank also visible (CUCAP APC076/077/078) The small stone circle with an outlying recumbent stone to E but now removed was described in 1826 as ‘a third, which is but seventeen yards in diameter, and composed of fifteen large rocks standing erect. A few yards to the E of these is a large stone lying flat, seven feet and a half [2.2m] in length, six [1.8m] in height, and four and a half [1.3m] in breadth, which is generally supposed to have been the altar for sacrifice’ (Fitzgerald and McGregor 1826, 298). In 1840 the Ordnance Survey letters described the monument as following; ’On the north-east stands smallest, forty-five [14m] in diameter. A perfect circle formed of stones of large size, placed at intervals, all from four to five feet [1.2-1.5m] high, and several of them with squared flat tops’ (OSL 1840, 249). To see a 3D model of this monument, visit: https://skfb.ly/osXDA Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 May 2018

• LI032-007 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on flat grassland with good views in all directions, 260m W of Lough Gur in an area with a large concentration of prehistoric monuments. Grange embanked stone circle (LI032-004001-) is visible 60m to NNW, an ancient roadway known as Cladh na Leac (LI032-010001-) running N-S lies 200m to E, with a megalithic structure (LI032-010003-) 200m to SSE. Standing stone described by O'Kelly (1944, 46) as a 'large boulder of volcanic breccia measuring 5' [1.5m] high, 8'm [2.4m] long and 4' [1.2m] thick'. Standing stone marked on OS 6-inch map as 'Cloch á bhíle' meaning 'the stone of the sacred tree'. In 1895 it was suggested that this stone may have been used as an inauguration site for the kings of Munster (Lynch 1895, 299). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 July 2018

• LI032-008001 Church
  Description

  No surface remains visible of any medieval church. Post-1700 R. C. Church standing in graveyard (LI032-008002-) which contains memorials dating from the post-1700 period onwards (O'Kelly 1944, 45). According to Westropp (1904-05, 382) the abbey of Monasteranenagh (LI031-050004-) was granted the church site of Grange. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 April 2019

• LI032-008002 Graveyard
  Description

  Post-1700 R. C. Church standing in N quadrant of graveyard which contains memorials dating from the post-1700 period onwards. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 April 2019

• LI032-009 Standing stone
  Description

  Site of standing stone which has been removed, in pasture on a gently W facing slope of a low knoll 330m W of Lough Gur and within a cluster of prehistoric monuments. Standing stone known as 'Ardaghlooda' (LI032-010002-) stands 100m to NE, an earthwork (LI032-298----) lies 90m to NNW, stone circle (LI032-006----) 140m to SW of an ancient trackway or road (LI032-010001-) running N-S annotated 'Cladh na Leac' which runs 70m E of the standing stone. Not indicated on OSi historic maps and it is not visible on aerial orthoimages. Described by Crofton Croker (1833, 107-8) as following; 'About one hundred and sixty yards in a north-east direction from the smallest circle (No. 3) [LI032-006----] is a single stone, marked B, The measurement of stone B is — Height 5 ft. 0 ins. [1.5m] Circumference, 17 ft. 6 ins. [5.3m] Breadth 6ft. 6ins. [2m] Thickness 4 ft 0 ins. [1.2m]. Lenihan (1866, 724) recorded that '150 paces north-east of this [LI032-006----) again, is a sunken "gowlaun" [gallán/gallaun/standing stone], about 4 feet [1.2m] high by six [1.8m] broad, quite rude'. This sunken stone was described by Lynch (1895, 300) as following; 'About two hundred and fifty yards [228m] to the north-east from the chief circle [LI032-005---] there was, until a few years ago, a sunken gallaun four feet high by six feet broad. Tradition states that this gallaun was the last stone of a large stone chair which once stood here'. Lynch (1913, 22) gave more details about this standing stone when he wrote that 'Between this pillar stone [LI032-010002-] and the stone circles (LI032-004001-/005/006----) was the dallan mentioned in that article, and the dimensions and distance of this stone from the stone circles are given by Crofton Croker, so that the position of it may now be accurately assigned. Edward FitzGerald told me that this dallan was the last stone of a stone chair, that his father had seen the stone chair before its destruction, and that he often spoke of it to this sons, and gave a description of it frequently'. The site of the removed standing stone was described by O'Kelly (1942, 46) as following; ‘Croker says that at a distance of 160 yards [146m] NE of Circle C there was a single standing stone. It was 5 ft [1.5m] high, 6½ ft [2m] broad and 4 ft [1.2m] thick and has since been removed’. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and location map showing standing stone B taken from Croker 1833 Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 30 October 2020

• LI032-010001 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  On the W side of Ardaghlooda, a rocky ridge overlooking Lough Gur, between 40-200m W of the lake. Located 220m E of the great stone circle at Grange (LI032-004001-) within a dense concentration of archaeological monuments including standings stones (LI032-009/010002-) located 45m W and 30m E of the road respectively. Incorporated into a historic field system (LI032-011003-) and between 120-175m W of three enclosures (LI032-011001/002/004-). The S end of the historic road abuts a megalithic structure (LI032-010003-). The road is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch or the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch maps, although a field boundary (560m long) is illustrated running along the W side of the road. The historic road is annotated 'Cladh na Leac' on the Cassini OSi 6-inch map as slightly curving (orientated NNW-SSE; L 775m; Wth 8m). The road was described by Ó Ríordáin (1951, 39-40) as ‘a sunken track lined on both sides by boulders’. The road is clearly visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 as a linear sunken road lined on either side by a ditch. The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006; 16/03/2016; 20/03/2020 and 20/09/2020. The course of the road can be traced from Loughgur House (NIAH Reg. No. 21903205) on aerial photographs from its N end to the townland boundary in the S at Ballynagallagh. A separate section of the historic road survives in Ballynagallagh townland (LI032-041001-). The N end of the road appears to run from Loughgur House along a modern road on the S side of Grange Hill where it again can be traced as a field monument (LI023-241----) as far as the Camoge River. Lynch traces the road as far as Kilmallock (1951, 75). See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• LI032-010002 Standing stone
  Description

  National monument No. 247. Standing stone situated on W facing slope of hill or rock outcrop marked on OS map as 'Ardaghlooda' 250m W of Lough Gur and surrounded by a cluster of prehistoric monuments. Two enclosures (LI032-011001-/002-) and a field system (LI032-011003-) lie immediately to the NE and E with standing stone (LI032-009----) in field 70m to SW. An ancient trackway or road marked as 'Cladh na Leac' runs N-S immediately to the W of the standing stone. Three stone circles (LI032-006-/005-/004001-) in field 225m to SSW. Described in 1978 as a tall reclining orthostat (H 3m) (O'Kelly and O'Kelly 1978, 13) which is now clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. In 1919 the following folklore about this standing stone was recorded; 'An old man, however suggested to me that Cromcon, which could hardly be a corruption of Cinn Con, was from the Irish Cromcheann, "bowed head", and that it was probably the name of the bowed pillar-stone at the foot of Ardaghlooda or Paddock Hill, at the west side of Lough Gur' (Lynch 1919, 74). Lynch also suggested that Aenach of Clochar held at the rock above Lough Gur and that the standing stone may mark the location of the assembly-place or fair green of Old Clochar (ibid., 74-5). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 May 2018

• LI032-010003 Megalithic structure
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture 550m S of the summit of a low hill known as Ardaghlooda and 60m W of Lough Gur. Located SE and SW of a dense concentration of prehistoric monuments around the lake at Grange and on the Knockadoon Peninsula (Cleary 2018). The site (LI032-010003-) is located 5m W of a historic trackway running NNW-SSE known as Cladh na Leac (LI032-010001-). The great stone circle at Grange (LI032-004001-) is located 250m to NW. Two stone circles (LI032-005/006----) are 350m to NW. Standing stone known as Cloch á Bhíle (LI032-007----) lies 200m to WNW, two possible megalithic tombs (LI032-318/004002-) are located 250m to NW. The site is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map nor is it on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Annotated 'Giant’s Grave (Site of)' on the Cassini OSi 6-inch map. The site is recorded in the Megalithic Survey of Ireland (De Valera and Ó Nualláin 1982, 78) as follows: ‘Lynch states that it was "some kind of a stone structure" and was told by a very old man at Lough Gur that he took stones from it and that it was shaped like a grave. No trace of this feature survives and its nature is uncertain. The site has been mentioned by a number of authors (Harkness 1869, 394; O'Kelly 1944, 45), the most comprehensive account is by Lynch (1895, 299). The location of the monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 20/03/2018; 28/06/2018 and 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• LI032-011001 Enclosure
  Description

  On rocky pasture on Ardaghlooda, a rocky ridge overlooking Lough Gur, 110m W of the lake within a dense concentration of archaeological monuments including standings stones (LI032-009/010002-). One of three enclosures on the hill (LI032-011001/002-/004-), enclosure (LI032-011002-) located on the summit 95m to NNE, enclosure (LI032-011004-) located 15m to N. The great stone circle at Grange (LI032-004001-) is located 350m to SW. The site pre-dates a later historic field system (LI032-011003-) which overlies the enclosures (LI032-011001-/002/004-). A historic road (LI032-010001-) known as 'Cladh na Leac' skirts around the W side of the hill 100m from the enclosure. The enclosure is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch, 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch or on the Cassini OSi 6-inch maps. It is faintly visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013. Grogan (1989, Vol. 2, 9, Vol. 3, Figs. 4-5) describes the site as a ‘habitation enclosure...... the site is circular and is 25m in maximum diameter’. The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016 and 25/03/2017 and survives as a circular enclosure (ext. diam. 19m N-S; 17.5m E-W) bisected by a later E-W field boundary that forms part of relic field system (LI032-011003-). The enclosure is defined by a low bank. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• LI032-011002 Enclosure
  Description

  On rocky pasture on the summit Ardaghlooda, a rocky ridge overlooking Lough Gur, 90m W of the lake. The site is one of three enclosures on the hill (LI032-011001-/002/004-) within a dense concentration of archaeological monuments including standings stones (LI032-009/010002-). Enclosure (LI032-011001-) located 95m to SSW, enclosure (LI032-011004-) located 43m to SW. The great stone circle at Grange (LI032-004001-) located 430m to SW. The site pre-dates a later historic field system (LI032-011003-) which overlies the enclosures (LI032-011001/002/004-). The historic road (LI032-010001-) known as 'Cladh na Leac' skirts around the W side of the hill 165m W of the enclosure. The site is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch or on the 1897 ed. 25-inch maps. It is depicted on the Cassini 6-inch OSi map by a curving arc of hachures defining the SW side of the enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m). It is faintly visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013. The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006; 25/03/2017; 20/03/2018 and 20/09/20200 and survives as a circular enclosure (int. diam. 29m N-S; 29m E-W) surrounded by a low bank (Wth c. 7m). The enclosure is bisected by a later E-W field boundary that forms part of relic field system (LI032-011003-). See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• LI032-011003 Field system
  Description

  In rocky pasture on the summit of Ardaghlooda, a rocky ridge / hill overlooking and adjacent to Lough Gur which forms the E boundary of the site. The field system overlies three enclosures on the hill (LI032-011001/002/004-) and is located around a standing stone (LI032-010002-). A historic road (LI032-010001-) known as 'Cladh na Leac' forms the W boundary of the field system. The great stone circle at Grange (LI032-004001-) is located 220m W. The field system is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map nor is it depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map or on the Cassini OSi 6-inch map. It is visible on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified as a relic field system by Ó Ríordáin (1951, 40 and 1954, 454) who describes the site as ‘field fences and enclosure’ and O’Kelly and O’Kelly (1981, 36) who notes a circular enclosure, several hut sites and system of ancient fields. The field system consists of 5 parallel field boundaries orientated E-W (ext. dims. 330m N-S; 265m E-W) spaced between 25-95m apart. There are also N-S walls linking the field boundaries. Field boundaries within the field system clearly overlie and cut through the earlier circular enclosures (LI032-011001-; LI032-011002- and LI032-011004-). The field system is tied into the E bank along the sunken roadway (LI032-010001-) suggesting they are contemporary. The field system is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 16/03/2016; 25/03/2017 and 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 3 November 2020

• LI032-011004 Enclosure
  Description

  On rocky pasture on the summit Ardaghlooda, a rocky ridge overlooking Lough Gur, 90m W of the lake. The site is one of three enclosures on the hill (LI032-011001-/002/004-) within a dense concentration of archaeological monuments including standing stones (LI032-009/010002-). Enclosure (LI032-011001-) located 95m to SSW. The great stone circle at Grange (LI032-004001-) located 430m to SW. The site pre-dates a later historic field system (LI032-011003-) which overlies the enclosures (LI032-011001/002/004-). The historic road (LI032-010001-) known as 'Cladh na Leac' skirts around the W side of the hill 165m W of the enclosure. The site is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch or on the 1897 ed. 25-inch maps. Outline of enclosure (diam. c. 25m) visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 25/03/2017. Faint outline of enclosure visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12 and Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 4 November 2020

• LI032-012 Crannog
  Description

  National monument No. 247. Crannóg known as 'Crock Island' is now located on partially reclaimed land on NW side of Lough Gur, 130m NW of the present shoreline of the lake. The water level of Lough Gur was lowered when the lake was drained shortly after the first edition OS 6-inch map around the late 1830s (Harkness 1869, 395). On the first edition OS 6-inch map the crannóg is shown standing on a W spur of the lake with Grange Hill to the N, Knockfennell to the NE and Ardaghlooda Hill to S. Garret Island stands in the centre of the lake 410m to SSE. On this map Crock Island lies 70m E of the shoreline. Two possible settlement platfroms (LI032-014002-/005-), a ringfort (LI032-014003-) and a field system (LI032-014003-) lie 260m to E. Garret island on which stands a castle (LI032-018----) lies 410m to SSE with a crannóg (LI032-021----) 540m to SSE. Grange church (LI032-008001-) and graveyard (LI032-008002-) lie 250m to W, and Lough Gur House stands 150m to N. Crannóg described in 1978 as a circular shaped platform of earth and stone measuring 28m in diameter and now standing approximately 2m high above the surrounding land (O'Kelly and O'Kelly 1978, 42). According to O'Kelly (1944, 46) the foundation of the crannóg (diam. 90 feet/27m; H 6' 6"/2m) was formed by a circular platform of large stones which supported layers of brush-wood and earth. Today the outline of a tree and scrub-covered mound standing on poorly drained rushy land is visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 May 2018

• LI032-179 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved rough pasture, 420m N of a townland boundary with another portion of Grange and 1.4km NW of Lough Gur. Not depicted on OSi historic maps, although an annotation ‘Carraig-an-Chroimfhéir’ and the depiction of a rocky crag or rock outcrop to S, W and N would suggest that it is situated in a sheltered location. Monument identified as a trapezoidal-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 137: AP 4/3642). Monument is visible as a trapezoidal-shaped enclosure (42m N-S; 3m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 12 November 2020

• LI032-182002 Earthwork
  Description

  In improved rough, wet pasture, abutting a watercourse to N and 35m to ENE of another watercourse which also marks a townland boundary with Raheen. The settlement of Grange Upper lies 225m to E and Lough Gur lies 1.15km to ESE. Earthworks (LI032-182001-/325----) lie 50m to WSW and 110m to W, respectively and enclosure (LI031-081----) lies 135m to WNW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as an earthwork by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 166: AP 4/3601). Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 166. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 12 November 2020

• LI032-297 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified on aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 32, Bruff 282.1: AP 4/3601). Described by Doody (2008, 135) as a 'oval ditched enclosure, c. 80m E-W x 60m N-S, with possible annexe on N side. Area enclosed possible a raised platform'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 7 November 2013

• LI032-298 Earthwork
  Description

  In improved pasture, on a W facing slope of hillock annotated on OSi map as 'Ardaghlooda', 340m W of Lough Gur and surrounded by a cluster of prehistoric monuments. An ancient trackway (LI032-010001-) annotated 'Cladh na Leac' runs N-S roughly 45m to E; standing stones (LI032-009/010002-) lie 50m to SE and 90m to E, respectively. Two enclosures (LI032-011001-/002-) and a field system (LI032-011003-) lie 200m to E and three stone circles (LI032-006-/005-/004001-) lie 187m to SSW, 230m to SW and 290m to SSW, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 as an earthwork, although it is not annotated or numbered on the image in the SMR file. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped enclosure (28m NE-SW; 21m NW-SE) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and as an oval-shaped cropmark of similar size on Google Earth orthoimage 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 28 November 2020

• LI032-318 Anomalous stone group
  Description

  In improved pasture 230m W of Lough Gur. Grange stone circle (LI032-004001-) lies 100m to W, two stone circles (LI032-005/006----) located in the adjoining field to N and structure (LI032-319----) 35m to NW. Not depicted on OSi maps. Identified in 2008 as a series of discrete, negative magnetic anomalies that form a circle measure 13m in diameter, labelled Feature 5 in Area 1 (fluxgate gradiometer survey) and tentatively described as possible ‘remains of small stone circle or, possibly some form of megalithic structure’ (Cleary 2008, 39-40). Visible as circular-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 07/05/2006. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached location maps of Geophysical Survey taken from Cleary 2008 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 2 April 2021

• LI032-319 Structure
  Description

  In improved pasture 300m W of Lough Gur. Grange stone circle (LI032-004001-) 60m to W, two stone circles (LI032-005/006----) are in the adjoining field to the N and possible anomalous stone group (LI032-318----) 35m to SE. Not depicted on any OSi maps. Identified by Geophysical survey in 2008 as Feature 6 in Area 1 (fluxgate gradiometer survey) and described as a, ‘short distance to the NW [of LI032-318----] of this, the survey identified a slender, semi-circular arc of negative magnetic gradient, approximately 12m in length and 0.5m in width, which could conceivably represent the remains of another circular structure, in this case possibly a building defined by a stone wall footing, or perhaps a bedding trench whose fill is less magnetic than the surrounding soils’ (Cleary 2008, 40). No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached location maps of Geophysical Survey taken from Cleary 2008 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 2 April 2021

• LI032-320 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture 300m W of Lough Gur. Grange stone circle (LI032-004001-) immediately to N, two stone circles (LI032-005/006----) are in the adjoining field to the N and possible anomalous stone group (LI032-318----) 35m to NE. Not depicted on any OSi maps. Identified by Geophysical survey in 2008 as Feature 6 in Area 1 (fluxgate gradiometer survey) and described as follows; ‘Perhaps the most striking feature registered by the survey in Area 1 is a large, subcircular anomaly [7] located near the western end of the field, some 20m south of Grange Stone Circle [LI032-004001-]. This feature, which appears to extend beyond the limits of the survey, is defined by two closely-set bands of negative magnetic gradient, the innermost of which averages about 1m in width and defines a sub-circular area measuring approximately 12.5m in diameter. The broader, outer band (2m in average width and over 20m in diameter) runs concentric with the inner ring from the southwest around to the northeast, at which point it diverges from otherwise elliptical course to extend northwards for a short distance before petering out. Although further investigation is required to determine the full extent and significance of these anomalies, their magnetic expression and layout are suggestive of some form of enclosure, possibly defined by earthen and/or stone boundaries’ (Cleary 2008, 40). No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached location maps of Geophysical Survey taken from Cleary 2008 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 2 April 2021

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c. 1930, with raised P&T lettering. Set into square-profile pier of neighbouring school. Manufactured by Saint John's Works Enniscorthy.

• Grange National Schools, school, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey former national school, built in 1867. Comprising gable-fronted end bays and gable-fronted breakfront to front (west) elevation, single-bay single-storey extensions and gable-fronted extension to rear (east) elevation. Now in use as community hall. Pitched slate roof having render chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with inscribed limestone plaque to breakfront. Tripartite openings to end bays having round-headed opening with flanking square-headed openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and shared limestone sills. Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to breakfront having timber battened doors. Pair of square-profile concrete piers to west with cast-iron post box, single-leaf cast-iron gate and stile. Pair of square-profile concrete piers to south-west having single-leaf cast-iron gate.

• Loughgur House, country house, 1785–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over part raised basement country house, built 1786, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey lean-to projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (two-bay deep) full-height off-central return (north). Pitched slate roof; pitched slate roof (north), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on creeper- or ivy-covered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by perron of cut-limestone steps. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (basement) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having ball finial-topped pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

• Catholic Church of Saint Patrick and Saint Brigid, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding barn style gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built 1837, having four-bay nave and gable-fronted two-bay single-storey sacristy to rear (north) elevation. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge crestings, limestone pinnacle to rear and wrought-iron cross finial to front (south) elevation. Roughcast rendered walls having render plinth course. Pointed arch openings with timber Y-tracery stained glass windows and limestone sills. Those to west elevation having replacement concrete sills. Oculus to gable apex, front elevation, with render surround and timber louvered vents. Pointed arch opening having double-leaf timber battened doors. Marble reredos and altar to interior. Timber gallery with trefoil-headed panels and octagonal timber Doric style columns. Graveyard to site. Pair of square-profile dressed limestone piers to west having double-leaf spear-headed cast-iron gates and pedestrian entrance with single-leaf cast-iron gate.

• Glebe House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland glebe house, built 1813, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; two-bay (east) or single-bay (west) two-storey side elevations. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber boarded eaves having timber consoles. Limewashed lime rendered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening in segmental-headed recess approached by two cut-limestone steps with concealed dressings framing glazed timber boarded double doors having fanlight. Segmental-headed door opening into glebe house with timber panelled pilaster mullions, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having lichen-spotted cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Grange.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Grange with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Grange · An Ghráinsigh

Area

5,622,125 m² (562.21 ha, 1,389.26 acres)

Civil parish

Monasteranenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grange electoral division: 553 people in 195 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardanreagh, Ballingoola, Ballycullane, Ballynagallagh, Friarstown South, Knockfennell, Loughgur, Raheen, Rockbarton, Rockbarton, Skool

Placenames

Grange on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.