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
- 52.41204, -8.38587
- SMR number
- LI049-019----
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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 165m N of the townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown East. Ringfort (LI049-017----) lies 100m to N. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a partially levelled ringfort on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; Strip map 4, Site 4/6) taken 03/11/1984. Visible as a waterlogged circular-shaped area (diam. c. 28m) truncated at S by post-1700 field boundary running E-W on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Outline of earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 13/08/2021. May be the remains of a pond rather than that of an archaeological monument. A spring well is depicted immediately to W on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 22 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.