Lough Gur

A series of 16 Neolithic and Early Bronze Age settlement sites around the shores of a lake in Limerick, Ireland, one of the greatest concentrations of sites in Ireland. There were rectangular Neolithic houses, some associated with Beaker pottery. Some are enclosed by a double ring of stones, dated to c 2600 bc. There are also megalithic chambered tombs and stone circles nearby. Ritual or funerary monuments include menhirs, a wedge-shaped gallery grave, a flat-topped cairn with urn burials, and a circle of contiguous stones which yielded Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age pottery. There are also several cashels and a crannog.

Lake in Co. Limerick, Ireland, surrounded by a great concentration of prehistoric sites, including stone circles, megalithic tombs, Neolithic hut foundations and a crannog. One circle, measuring o46 metres in diameter, was constructed of stones set edge to edge; Beaker pottery, which had been deliberately smashed, was found at the bases of the stones.