Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Raheennamadra, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheennamadra
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.42079, -8.39974
- SMR number
- LI041-010----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture, 55m NE of townland boundary with Mitchelstown North. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular cropmark of a possible enclosure on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; Strip Map 4, Site 4/13) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as a semi-circular shaped cropmark (dims. c. 33m N-S; 46m E-W) transected at N by a relic post-1700 field boundary on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 13 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.