Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Killeen (coshlea By., Ballylanders Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (coshlea By., Ballylanders Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rahasteen, Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rahasteen - Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.39049, -8.35089
- SMR number
- LI049-116----
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, 120m W of Ahatemple Stream that runs N-S, a barrow (LI049-0268----) and enclosure (LI049-117----) lies 140m to the SE and 150m to the NE, respectively. Annotated 'Rahasteen' on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 29m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a scarp, with fosse at N. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of ‘two small forts about the centre of the td., one called Rahasteen (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 229). Monument visible as raised oval shaped area defined by a fosse on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Cultivation ridges are visible running across interior of monument on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 October 2021
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.