Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Raheen (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheen (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41202, -8.37726
- SMR number
- LI049-032----
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 wet pasture, 100m E of townland boundaries with Raheenamadra and Micthelstowndown East. Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Potential medieval moated site identified as a square-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 31m N-S x 30m E-W) on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2779, Site No. 154; Strip Map 4 Site 4/5) taken 03/11/1984. Outline of square-shaped area defined by a fosse immediately E of a modern carpark, visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Partial cropmakr of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Square-shaped earthwork (dims. c. 10m x 10m) in SW quadrant possibly the result of modern development is visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached BGE aerial photographs (2779, Site 154, Map 4 Site 4/5) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 14 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.