Lough Gur is a small horseshoe-shaped lake nestled among limestone hills in south-eastern Limerick.  Over 30 ancient sites and monuments can be found around its shores today, ranging in date from Neolithic to Medieval times, and many more may originally have been present (view map).  Lough Gur’s monuments include stone circles, dwelling-places, field systems, standing stones, ringforts, crannogs, castles, and a megalithic tomb.  In 1912 Sir Bertram Windle made a survey of the sites at Lough Gur, designating them by letters of the alphabet.  Excavations began in 1936 under the direction of Seán P. Ó Ríordáin.
 

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