Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Raheen (phillipstown Upper By.), County Offaly, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.