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Right beside the road this is an easy one to find, the most interesting thing about it location is “An Screagan” an hill to the west of it that has some kind of marker on its peak, may just be a trig point as no standing stone is marked but I will investigate.

These two Iron Age stone Cashels are on the bank of Lough Gur on a hill called Carraig Aille. Seemingly during excavation a silver hoard was found here.
Both forts are quite low, the wall only maybe 1- 1.5m high. There is an entrance in both of them to the east.
I heard well over a year ago that the state had bought the land that they are on and they were to be made available to the public but have had no further update.
They are located just after the crossroads going to the lake on the left hand side. We parked in front of a nice house on the right hand side of the road and you should be able to see them from the road.

Coming out of Caher on the road to Clonmel this standing stone is on the first imposing hill on the right hand side. There seems to be a lighting conduction on the hill as well. Part on the right-hand side of the road and access is easy enough thru two fields.
The stone itself is about 2.5m high and I wonder does the look of it and the fact it has a lightning conductor beside it are connected, perhaps it used get hit by lightning regulary!
The views from the top of this hill and panoramic and stunning. On a clear day you can see all the cairns that top the hills around these parts.

I looked on the OS map on this one and thought its positioning close to the road looked funny. This is actually ON the road in a little traffice island.
It is on the road south of Cahir take the road signposted for the Swiss Cottage but ignore the right hand turn for it. The stone is at the junction of the next left-hand turn.

Again there is no sign of this standing stone. Seems to be a regular occurance in the Golden Vale.

This tomb no longer appears to be with us.
With the construction of the M8 the site of this is difficult to get to.
I’ve been up here twice and Im fairly satisfied that it is no longer here. It is in a pine plantation and there is a little mound roughly in the area where I think it may have been.
As they say better men than me are welcome to try!

Well I was wrong about this site, I attended a talk about prehistoric sites in the Suir Valley and this appeared on it with a picture and everything. So this made me even more determined to find it.
It is very tough to find even with the ten digit OS grid ref.
It is in a kind of forest area with loads of different types of trees etc and no paths to it.
There does seem to be various paths through the forest but they dont go to this so it makes it even more confusing.
I believe it is listed as a possible Portal Tomb, Im not sure why that is so. although in fairness its state of repair at the moment is poor. There seems to be only a capstone and one small upright remaining. There is also some quartz stone in the vicinity.
Apologies about the pictures, I will get a few better ones another day, if I can find it again!

This bullaun is right beside a house. I met the farmer and he said the whole house is within an enclosure which I had spotted myself. It is a very deep bullaun and the farmer said he was happy to show it to anyone (although I think I was the first to look at it).

This standing stone is close to the town of Eyrecourt. When you come into the town from Portuma turn left then left and then left again. The stone can be seen on a small hill. Its about 0.5m high.

The stone here is gone. There was noone around to ask what happened to it.

There is meant to be a standing stone here, however there is no sign of it at ground-level. What is here are the remains of a raised rath.

This wedge tomb isnt far from Portuma in Galway. It is situated on a small mound and is aligned west to east. It is approx 6-7m long. On the N65 from Portuma to Killamor take the first left and then left again. You pass a few farmhouses on the right and pull in at a gate just before the next farmhouse on the right.
Follow the track that is inside this gate and it takes you out into a field adjacent to the field with the tomb in it.
You should be able to see a new house in the distance, walk towards it and climb the stone wall and you should be able to see the tomb easily.
Although from the OS Map it looks like there may be some interaction with Church Hill you cant actually see it because of a ditch in the way.

These stones are down as a standing stone on the map. It is easy to find following a track along by the Clare river. It is in a pin for keeping bullocks. They all took a mad run at me, luckily they were well fenced in.
There are two stones here not one, I didnt get up close to really see the details of them. They must be about 0.75m.

This tomb is close to Murroe in Co. Limerick and to Glenstall Abbey. Follow the OS Map past about 2 houses on the left. The map shows a track into the woods. Best to follow this because one track where the break that looks the obvious way on OS map takes you alongside a house and they keep horses.
Follow the track to the end and then it naturally tails left following the tree-line (Not shown on the map). Head North west for about 300m and there is a gap on the right into a field. Once in the field you should be able to see the tomb to the north west in the corner of the field.
When i visited the tomb was water-logged. However it is in good condition, about 5m long and I think that all of the stones are there. To the North West is Sliabh Eibhlinne and the North is Sliabh Kimalta. However both are obscured by the trees.

This mound is not marked on the map and to me looks like it is forming an artifical horizon to the east of the tomb.
It must be approx 25m diameter and about a height of 2m.

This tomb is just off the road not far from Adare. Turn right it adare and follow a winding road (I would recommend an OS map and a GPS). There is a place to park across from the gate into the field. The tomb is two fields in from the road. There will be a ring-fort on your left as you walk south towards the tomb (in the adjacent field) and this is not marked on the map.
The tomb points east-west and there is a mound to the east that is also not marked on the map.
It is about 5-7m in length and is made from an unusual looking rock for a wedge tomb. There are a lot of rock outcrops in the area and many stones lying about. I think with a bit of imagination some of them could be the remains of tombs/rows.

I never got to see this tomb the last time I went to Knockfeerina. This time i got here just as the sun was beginning to go down and although it was a beautiful time of the evening it wasn’t great for photography with my camera.
To get there, take the track leading up to Knockfeerina and where it branches off at the bottom of the hill take the left branch.
Follow this until it ends and you should be able to see the tomb away in the distance to your left over one ditch.
The tomb itself is big, I measured it roughly 11m long by about 2m wide. It is aligned East-West with the east end pointing towards a rock outcrop.

About 3m high by 26m diameter. This mound falls away to a stream and so one side of it is very high.
Again this looks towards Slieve Kimalta and the Silvermines Mt.

The height is about 3m by 16m diameter, seems to be looking towards Slieve Kimalta/ Silvermines Mts.

This mound seems to be gone and has been replaced by a quarry.

This mini barrow cemetry consists of a least 3 barrows, one of which is a conjoined barrow.
They all look towards Slieve Kimalta and Silvermine Mts.
They can be found to the back of the village of Ballinahinch. There is also a nice ringfort in the vicinity.

If your driving down towards the longstone here at Baurnodomeeny look at the new bungalow to the left of it. U will clearly see the fence around “the Krall”, it looks like it is in the garden of the house.
I parked a little after the bungalow at an old house and climbed in about one field.
The folklore states that this was once over 3m high which is a good size cairn. There also seems to be a small chamber as per the second picture so perhaps it is a kist or something like this.

This is a lovely and unusual site. It seems to be a standing stone surrounded by a barrow which is very unusual for this part of the country.
It is pretty close to the village of Ballinahinch famous for that terrible comedy Killinascully. There is a road at the back of the church in the village that runs for about 1.25 km.
At the end of this road the site itself is probably a half km. It is almost directly in line with the road and i found it (GPS wasnt working on the day but it would be the best way to find it).
There are a number of other barrows in the area that I intend to view particulary now that the M7 motorway is going to be passing pretty close to the village.

I thought the name may have had some roots in the Pallasgreen/ grian or sun goddess. However from the Gaelic for Rosegreen, it seems that it literally means rose green.
This mound is just off the R686, there is a church across the road that looks like it may be built on a low mound. Perhaps they are both barrows. The field this mound is in is up for sale for a housing development so this may be the last we ever see of it.

This ringfort is just outside Cashel. I include it because it is marked specifically as “Rath Na Drinne” on the OS Map which is unusual and because of its proximity to Carron Henge which is only a few kms away. It is a three bank ring-fort but perhaps it may orginally have been a henge? Its huge in the centre maybe 300-400m diameter.

Strangely enough this is the second townland near to Cashel that is called Ballinree. This stone is no longer here. It would have been in the middle of land that is now used for tillage so I guess it has been removed. The view south to the hills is great.

This mound is about 2m high and maybe 10-15m diameter. It is to the rear of a gentry house. It is very close to a standing stone. Perhaps the stone was on top of it but that is unlikely.

This standing stone has fallen. It can be found off the Horse and Jockey to Cashel (N8) road. Best to locate off of a OS map, its the first right after a long turn after the H&J coming from Dublin. Pass thru a cross roads and there is an old gentry house on the right hand side. Stop at the field just before it and on the rhs there is a cattle crush. Hop this and walk along side the walls of the estate. When it stops turn left in towards a circular barrow ish looking area. The stone is lying here. It is about 2m long and Im not sure which end is up. There is an artifical mound to the north east and I think the stone may have been on some kind of barrow.

This is a lovely balluan which you should be able to see easily enough from the road. It is situated on a real 360 panoramic view.
The stone itself must be about 1.25m x 0.75m.

This stone is about 1.25m high and it makes up part of the field boundary, follow the directions for Manning megalithic tomb turn left after it and then follow this road for about a mile.

Its very difficult to make sense of this site. It is marked as stone circle on the OS Map but it so overgrown and damaged its hard to tell.
The eastern side has a cairn which looks very new and Id say it is field clearance. There are even some concrete slabs dumped in the ‘centre’ of this circle. There are a few stones from the circle lying flat to the western side but the eastern side has maybe 10-12 big stones ranging from 1m to 2m long and all about 0.75-1m high.
Follow the directions for the tomb in Manning and then turn left. The circle is in the field to the right after the turn. It is the middle of the field, difficult to see because there is some odd plants growing.

This big flat topped mound is massive. Im not sure what it is, possibly a raised rath or an artifical mound. Its not a motte.
It is about 5m tall, flat-topped the diameter could be anything up to 20-30m.
There is a low bank around the outside of the mound.

This tomb is only a few miles from Glanworth and is probably worth a look if you are visiting Labbacallee. In the town of Glanworth turn down towards the river and cross a really narrow bridge with a traffic light on it. After about 2 miles you will come to Manning cross. The tomb is on the right hand side about 300 before the cross in on a hill that is very overgrown.
The tomb itself is aligned west-east. There is a rath or a mound to the north of it and the OS map shows a number of circles around this suggesting ring-forts (i think). Its interesting that the inhabitants would have built around this tomb.

It isnt the easiest to see but thats as close as I could get with a few friendly bullocks coming over to say hello.
It looks about 1m high and seems to be a two tones stone, half black and half grey/white.

These pics are a couple of years old now. I happen to have passed the sign for this a few weeks ago and remembered I had called up here before.
Its a standing stone with two crosses on it, one incised into it the other standing out from the face. With a name like Giantsgrave you would think it was a megalithic tomb but this stone doesnt look like it could have been used in a tomb.
The standing stone is well sign-posted on the Clonmel to Cashel road.

This is an interesting site, I first read about it in some history of the parish book calling it a Druids Altar. In this, seemingly it was excavated and some bones where found under it in a pit. So perhaps this is more of a Kist.
I then had a look in the North Tipp Inventory and it calls it a possible megalithic tomb but it references that there are few remains and it looks like field clearance.
I used my GPS to find it and the coordinate took me exactly to the spot where the large rock in the pictures are.
Now I dont really understand how this could be confused with field clearance but I will do so more investigation (check both the references).
I was quite delighted in finding this, its a huge altar like rock. It may have been resting on the slab below (or vice versa). The area is full of large rocks that are part of field clearance so any of them may have made have been part of this tomb or possibly other monuments. In the field to south there is a possible bullaun.
Also less than 20m away from the tomb in the trees to the left there a large mound which didnt come out very well in the pic.
There is no mention of the mound in the North Tipp Inventory and looked to me like either a raised rath or else something older.
All in all, pretty interesting for a spot on the map marked with only a circle.

17th April 2016 –
I’m afraid the description above is incorrect and relates to a large slab of stone about 1 field away from the actual Megalithic Structure. The mound beside it is now mentioned in the Inventory and it is likely to be the remains of a Cashel.

This one would have been right at a cross-roads but doesnt seem to be here any longer. There is a unusual rock outcrop 100m to the east.

This standing stone appears to have gone missing. Fantastic views to the south from over the Glen of Aherlow to the Knockmealdown mts.

This standing stone Id definitely put in the unknown gems of Ireland. It is a huge stone way over 2.5m high and it must surely be the highest in these parts. It is waffer thin about 200mm.
It is kinda knife shaped with the handle dug into the ground.
To find it turn right just after Hospital (going towards limerick) and follow the road. It is in a field next to a sign for a vets practice.
The pics I have arent great but there is a big hill to the which it seems to addressing as they say to the top right of the first photo.
This would be roughly west from it.

This standing stone is in the vicinity of Lough Gur. Coming from Herbertstown take the next left and the follow the road. It is on the left-hand side and you shouldnt miss it. It is a little over a 1m tall.
It is in fact on unmarked standing stone which I confused previously with a marked stone farther up the road.

Well I was always intigued by the name Carney and it obviously comes from the word cairn so I was wondering what great cairn did the area take its name from.
Well the cairn that is marked on the map is in very poor condition. It may be that it has been used for building etc. It is on flat ground in fairly poor soil. It is made up of loose stones. However close by in the adjacent fields there is a lot of the same stone strewn around.

Driving from Limerick junction to tipp town take the first left and follow the road. The standing stone is in a field on the left hand side. Further on is a massive motte which is definitely worth a look.
The stone is over a 1m tall. I only got a pic of one side because again a few angry bullocks took a run at me. They are pretty mental this time of year. Weird you think they would be happy with the warm weather and all the grass.

This is an interesting standing stone. Take the tipperary town road to golden and turn left in Kilfeackle at the motte. Carry on this road until you come to a cross-roads/ church, if you are at the church you have gone too far!
There is good track across from a house about 400m before the cross-roads on the right hand side (Coming from Kilfeakle) follow this to its end and the standing stone is behind two ditches from here.
The stone itself is more lieing down than standing and id say is about 500-750mm high.
I couldnt get close to it with a herd of hungry looking bullocks in the field it was in.
Interestlingly enough in seems to be in a bowl-barrow or a depression in the ground.
Would be nice to get another look at it sometime. There is a ring-fort about 300m away.

Kedrah is an interesting fort to the north of the town of Cahir. It really is huge with the banks up to 2-3m high in parts. Im not sure whether it was built up or whether it is a hill that was altered. It seems to be looking to the cairn on the summit of Sturrakeen. However there are so many cairns on the hills around here its hard to know.
There is a ring-barrow to the south of the hill-fort. The banks of the fort seem to be dug from the inside henge-like but to be honest I’ve no idea what period this fort belongs to so any help would be appreciated.

This I got from Fourwinds site Megalithomania. It really is a lovely place to go with a old Church and a holy well nearby.
While I was at the church a wee doe ran out followed by his friend, which was lovely!
As per Toms site this is a turning stone that could be used for cures by turning the stone in the bullaun clock or sun wise and for curses by turning anti-clockwise.
Its very close to the town of Caher on the road to Tippeary Town.
Its not signed posted but follow the OS map and cross the railway line into what looks like someones farm-yard and follow the road/ stream you can see the cell in the distance and the church is on the right-hand side.

Link to the church
megalithomania.com/show/site/1235

There is a new information board here and they have cleared some of the wall at the back of the tomb away so that you can get a better picture. This is a truly impressive tomb and definitely worth a look. The capstone on top of it is massive and really would have taken some moving.

A few excerpts from the info board:

Labbacallee is aligned on the setting sun of the equinox, 22nd March and 24th September when the day is of equal length. On these days the sun illuminates the chamber.

The excavation in 1934, a womans Skelton was found. Her Skelton was found in the inner chamber, her head in the larger outer chamber.

Edit 15th April 2011

I sped down from work in Limerick to try and make the March 22 equinox at Labbacalle – my first problem was a sign-post on the Mitchelstown bypass that read Glanworth was only a few kms. Unfortunately it must be a least 14kms. I made it for about 6 30 but at this stage the sun was all but gone down as you can see from my pictures. If there is an alignment it must be from much earlier possibly 6 00pm.

The OS map has two standing stones here in Moohane. However on investigation I could only find one. The one on the top of a small hill. It is about 1.6m high and the hill it is on gives it a commanding view.
I think Knockfennel and Knockadoon can be easily seen from here.

This is on the road between Hospital and Knockainey. It is one of them really thin standing stones, about 1.2m high. I couldn’t get in to have a look at it with the bullocks.

This is just to the northwest of Rath Croaghan, it is described as a a fallen four-sided standing stone, 2.78m in length. Its name is linked to the name of Maeve and the folklore in the area.

Rath na Tarbh is a ring barrow with a mound in the middle. It is just off the road and is pretty huge. I have a book with the details so well edit this later. This is where in the Tain Bo that the two bulls fought.

Just stumbled by this when I got lost looking for Rathcroaghan (U ask me how that is possible, ask my navigator!). Stopped & had a look, its a lovely barrow and from the road side it could be 5m high. I have to read up whether there is any folklore attached to it.