Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Rahina, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahina
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.62784, -8.72090
- SMR number
- LI012-052----
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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 level pasture on slight rise, 170m NE of the townland boundary with Elmpark Demesne. Present remains consist of a raised roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 42m NNW-SSE x 56m WSW-ENE) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (H 0.4m; base Wth 3.2m) from NE through to SE and a scarp (H 0.4m; base Wth 2.4m) from SE through to N. The interior is slightly undulating. The outline of the monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019 and 25/03/2017
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 19 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.