Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50768, -8.55409
- SMR number
- LI032-287----
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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 low lying wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 20m N of a townland boundary with Rockbarton. Three habitation sites (LI032-080001-/02-/03-) lie 170m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 281: AP 4/3601) as a semicircular-shaped cropmark which appears to be open to NNE. Levelled monument is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 281.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 25 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.