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Moated site

Raheen (Coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Raheen, 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
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----

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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 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

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

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