Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Raheennamadra, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheennamadra
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Raheennamadra, Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.42588, -8.38717
- SMR number
- LI041-016----
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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 S of the townland boundary with Grange. Annotated ‘Raheennamadra’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where it is depicted as a raised roughly circular-shaped platform (dims. c. 20m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a scarp with gap at N. Truncated at N by drain running E-W. Earthwork described by Westropp (1916-19, 172) as 'not far from Clogher Hill is the mote of Raheenamaddera, a flat-topped mound, girt by a fosse'. Outline of heavily overgrown monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 16 July 2021
References
Westropp, T.J. 1916-19 The later Pagan sanctuaries of Co. Limerick. Journal of the North Munster Antiquarian Society 4, 3, 157-83.
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