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Grange stone circle, County Limerick

Grange stone circle

Grange stone circle lies 300 yards west of Lough Gur in County Limerick, a Stone Age monument found today beside the Limerick-Kilmallock road. It is known in Irish as Lios na Gráinsí or 'Fort of the Grange'.

The circle comprises a continuous ring of a hundred and thirteen uprights up to nine feet high, with a diameter of a hundred and fifty feet and backed by an earthen bank thirty feet wide and about three feet tall. (Read more)