Grange Stone Circle LI032-006----

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National monument No. 247. Stone circle on slightly elevated grassland 370m west of Lough Gur in an area rich with prehistoric monuments. Standing stones 147m and 210m to north-north-west, a prehistoric trackway running NW-SE known as Cladh na Leac lies 180m to the east. A large embanked stone circle known as the Grange Stone circle stands 90m to the south. A second partially levelled stone circle stands in the same field to the south-south-west. Monument consist of a low circular possible denuded burial-mound measuring 17m in diameter enclosed by fifteen low orthostats standing in a shallow fosse with a wide gap measuring 5m wide at south-south-west and slight traces of an external bank. The gap at SSW may have been created in modern times by the removal of two orthostats. The prehistoric site is on private land and there is no access to the monument without the landowner’s permission. For more information about the monument, visit: https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/?SMRS=LI032-006----