Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Raskeagh, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raskeagh
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05153, -6.41380
- SMR number
- LH004-021003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Wright (1758, bk I, 6) noted the ruinous remains of the foundations and part of the walls of two stone buildings in the internal area of a motte and bailey (LH004-021001-).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 28 April, 2016
References
Wright, T. 1748 Louthiana: or an introduction to the antiquities of Ireland. London. Thomas Payne.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.