Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Rathgibbon North, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathgibbon North
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.11499, -7.80310
- SMR number
- OF036-020----
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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
Located on natural ridge in undulating countryside. Sub-rectangular platform (46m N-S by 54m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (ext. H 1.5m) which has built up rounded corners typical of a moated site. No evidence of an enclosing fosse which may be due to the field boundaries which intersect all four sides of the site probably destroying original fosse. Depicted on the 1st ed. of the OS 6-inch map as 'Raheen'.
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.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.