What is recorded here

Pillar Stone stands in wet pasture beside the Loobagh river in County Limerick, marked only on later maps and listed by Grogan in Moorestown. It may have guided people through drowned fields or witnessed boundaries being drawn and forgotten. The river still moves around it, carrying what the land stopped recording.

In wet pasture, 55m N of Loobagh river that forms townland boundary with Garrynlease and 100m SW of townland boundary with Killeen. Not marked on 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, 272) in Moorestown townland. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 18 August 2021

Likely dating to the Bronze Age, the Pillar Stone may have functioned as a territorial marker or ritual monument. Its placement near a river and townland boundaries suggests a possible role in defining land divisions or holding ceremonial significance in prehistoric landscape use.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.