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
- 52.41295, -8.38460
- SMR number
- LI049-023----
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 reclaimed pasture, 230m NW of townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown East, Garryspillane House lies 325m to the NE. Enclosure (LI049-017----) lies 130m to the W. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as potential site immediately W of a post-1700 field boundary running N-S on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2578, Site 251) taken 03/11/1984. Faint outline visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Faint cropmark of levelled earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.