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Ringfort - rath

Raheen (Coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Raheen, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Raheen (Coshma By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.52258, -8.55490
SMR number
LI031-081----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On rough poorly drained pasture, 20m SW of watercourse which forms townland boundary with Grange. The settlement of Grange Upper lies 375m to E and Lough Gur lies 1.2km to ESE. Within a field system (LI032-325----), enclosures (LI032-182001/002-) lie 90m to SE and 135m to E respectively. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as sub-circular shaped area (37m N-S x 34m E-W) defined by a scarp and fosse. Visible on Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 70; AP4/3601) and on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP 350 13, 14 05/01/2003) as a large sub-circular shaped enclosure, intersected at W and S by linear cropmarks . Monument visible as circular-shaped enclosure on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020.

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Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 24 March 2021

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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