Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
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
- 52.41921, -8.39233
- SMR number
- LI041-013010-
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 pasture, a ringfort (LI041-013011-) lies 13m to the SE and a road (LI041-013013-) runs parallel 50m to the NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Westropp (1917-19, 67) described ‘an old track, 45 feet [13m] from it (LI041-013011-) towards the conjoined rings (LI041-013005/007-), runs between the “forts”’. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Trace of a linear cropmark (L. 26m) running NE-SW intersected at NE by a modern field boundary, is visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.
See attached plan taken from Westropp (1917-19) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 29 July 2021
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 343/20 and 21 on 05/01/2003.
References
Westropp, T.J. 1919 The ancient places of assembly in the counties Limerick and Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 49, 1-24.
Westropp, T.J. 1916-19 The Later Pagan Sanctuaries of Co. Limerick. Journal of the North Munster Antiquarian Society 4, 2, 122-48, 157-83.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Westropp, T.J. 1917-19 The Ancient Sanctuaries of Knockainey and Clogher, County Limerick, and Their
Goddesses. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature 34, 47-67.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.