Quarry in Clorane, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

Quarry in Clorane is a rectangular hole full of water in a field returned to pasture. The field has gone back to farming; the quarry is holding out for planning permission as a country club.

In reclaimed pasture, 170m SW of Camoge River, forming townland boundary with Rathmore South, 300m SE of enclosure (LI031-053----). Clorane House lies 160m to SW. No antiquity depicted at this location on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Quarry (Disused)’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map, where it is shown as a rectangular-shaped area (51m NW-SE, 35m SW-NE) that has been quarried away with cliff-face depicted from S-W-N. Quarry visible as tree-lined rectangular-shaped area filled with water on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 March 2021

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI031-054