Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Raheen (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheen (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.82357, -8.68555
- SMR number
- CO084-113----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Hartnett (1939, 266) described subrectangular earthwork (300ft x 250ft), surviving to S as 'raised platform, 5 feet above old ground level'; external fosse 'can be traced forits whole circuit, across a "boreen" to the north and a third class road tothe north-east' (ibid.). South-west quadrant, hachured on 1903 and 1943 OS 6-inch maps, survives as scarp (H 1m). Farm buildings and house built in E half of interior.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.