Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Raheen (coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
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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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
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.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.