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Earthwork

Raheennamadra, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Raheennamadra, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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