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
- 52.42170, -8.38934
- SMR number
- LI041-013018-
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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, immediately N of stream running E-W, a standing stone (LI041-013012-) lies 110m to the SW. Clogher Hill 190m to NNW, Knockaunatarriff 580m to SW. Not marked on historic OSi maps. Cropmark visible on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1:10,000 No. 75) taken 11/09/1982 . Monument visible as two rectangular-shaped conjoined cropmarks, N area (dims. c. 40m NW-SE; 36m NE-SW) defined by a ditch, with area to SE (dims. c. 30m NW-SE; 40m NE-SW), intersected at NE by a relic field boundary running NW-SE, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Outline of conjoined rectangular-shaped cropmarks clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 4 August 2021
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 318/16 taken on 05/10/2002. 343/19 on 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.