What is recorded here

Pillar Stone stands in County Limerick pasture beside a narrow stream, nineteen metres from an old ringfort. It resisted mapping for decades, evading the official charts while local memory kept its name alive. The stone may have marked a boundary, a burial or a warning, yet it still pierces the green field like a forgotten nail driven through time.

In pasture, immediately E of a stream running NW-SE. A ringfort (LI048-042----) lies 195m to the NE. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and 1897 ed. 25-inch map. Annotated ‘Pillar Stone’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Standing stone listed by Grogan (1989, 268) in Ballinvreena townland. Standing stone appears to be visible immediately S of farm trackway on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. The stone appears to be visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 18 August 2021

Probably dates to the early medieval period, given its depiction on the Cassini map and association with a nearby ringfort. Likely had a ceremonial or territorial function, possibly linked to local folklore or ancestor veneration.

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