Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
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
- 52.40856, -8.36841
- SMR number
- LI049-042----
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 pasture, fulacht fia (LI049-041----) lies 95m to the SW. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Possible levelled ringfort identified as a circular cropmark on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2580) taken 03/11/1984. Levelled monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 30m) on Digital Globe orthoimage and Google Earth orthoimages. The monument is intersected at W and E by linear cropmarks running N-S which may represent post-1700 field drainage channels.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 19 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 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.