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Castle - unclassified

Raheen (Phillipstown Upper By.), County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Raheen, County Offaly, 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 (Phillipstown Upper By.)
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Raheen Castle in ruins
Latest-edition OS map
Raheen Castle (Site of)
Coordinates
53.21465, -7.29995
SMR number
OF026-024----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Raheen Castle depicted as a small square-shaped building on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map standing immediately S of a laneway/roadway a few metres NNW of a farmyard. Location of castle site incorrectly depicted on revised editions of the OS 6-inch and 25-inch maps where the castle is shown located further to the W than on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Castle was situated on high ground overlooking Raheen Lough to the SW. Now levelled with just a few large stones showing through the surface which may be the remains of the foundations.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: David Sweetman

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 23 June 2016

Nearby in the register

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

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