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
- 52.40708, -8.36823
- SMR number
- LI049-043----
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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. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Earthwork identified as a curving cropmark from NW-N-E on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2580, Site 239) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as a D-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 35m N-S x 50m E-W) truncated at S by the L1513 road running E-W on Digital Globe orthoimage and Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 19 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.