Rock Art, GRANGE (Smallcounty By.)

Passage tomb art (present location) in Ireland, dating from the Bronze Age

Embanked stone circle (LI032-004001-; National Monument No. 247) with orthostat (int. H 1.02m; ext. H 0.5.; Wth 0.63m x T 0.36m) decorated with passage tomb art recently discovered by Ken Williams. Situated in grassland on top of low rise of ground 350m W of Lough Gur and surrounded by a cluster of prehistoric monuments. Two stone circles (LI032-005-/006----) in adjoining field to N, a trackway running NW-SE known as Cladh na Leac (LI032-010001-) 210m to E, site of standing stone known as Cloch á Bhíle (LI032-007----) 60m to SSE, site of Giant's Grave (LI032-010003-) possibly a megalithic structure 245m to SSE, site of a possible megalithic tomb/portal tomb (LI032-004002-) immediately to WSW, a trapezoidal setting of stones (LI032-002----) annotated as a 'Stone Avenue' which may be remains of a court tomb (Cleary 2015, 51) standing beside an embanked stone circle (LI032-003---) 120m to WNW. Embanked stone circle consisting of a slightly raised near perfect circular-shaped area (int. diam. 45.7m) defined by 113 contiguous orthostats (max. H 4m) serving as internal facing for a wide flat-topped earth and stone bank (Wth 9m; H 1-2m) with cobbled entrance gap (Wth 1m) at E flanked by tall orthostats ( H 2-2.2m), one of which (LI032-004003-) is decorated with passage-tomb style art recently identified by Ken Williams. The decorated stone is located on the NE side of the internal ker

Type:

Passage tomb art (present location)

Period:

Bronze Age

Coordinates:

52.51°N, 8.54°W

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