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County Limerick
Ireland
Civil Parishes
Grange or Manister Grange
description from Lewis's Topographical Directory of Ireland, 1837
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GRANGE, or MANISTER GRANGE, a parish, or district, in the barony of SMALL COUNTY, county of LIMERICK, and province of MUNSTER, 3 miles (N.) from Bruff, on the road to Limerick city : the population is included in the return for Manister.
It comprises 1224 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and consists of very good land, which is generally based on limestone, and chiefly in large diary farms. From an inquisition taken in the reign of Elizabeth, this district appears to have belonged to the parish of Manister, of which it still forms a part for civil purposes. The village of Six-mile-bridge is within its limits.
It is a rectory, in the diocese of Limerick, entirely impropriate in Lord Southwell: the tithes amount to £83.6s.2d.
In the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district of Bruff.
Here are three
druidical circles, the largest of which is 44½ yards in diameter, and
consists of 65 upright stones; they are principally of limestone, sandstone,
and clay-slate, but the largest, which is thirteen feet high, seven broad,
and four thick, is formed of breccia. The stone circle is 49 yards in diameter
and consists of 72 smaller stones; and the third, which consists of 15 large
shapeless blocks, is 17 yards in diameter. On the summit of Knockfinnell,
which overhangs Lough Gur, are two extensive earthen forts.
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