Stone Circle in Ballinlyna Lower, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In pasture, immediately N of a track running roughly E-W. An enclosure (LI056-013----) lies 264m to the W. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Stone Circle’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Described in 1931 as ‘a huge stone circle Man-made underground passages’ (O’Shaughnessy and Carroll 1931, 75) in the vicinity of Cahir Mortle. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 November 2021

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI056-014

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