Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Rahara, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahara
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51759, -8.12687
- SMR number
- RO045-079----
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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
On a gentle NE-facing slope at the NW corner of Funshinagh Lough, a large turlough. Known locally as the Lurag, it ran ENE-WSW (L c. 450m) from the NW-SE public road c. 1km W of Funshinagh Lough towards the lake. A short section (L c. 50m) of a fosse (Wth of base 4.3m; Wth of top 9.2m; D 0.7-0.9m), known locally as part of the Lurag which was traditionally dug by an enraged beast (Kelly 1907, 5; Anon 1988a) survives just E of rath (RO045-080001--). If it continued SW of the public road (L c. 700m) it would enter the basin called the Red Bog. Sections of the Lurag (RO045-162----) beginning c. 500m S of the Red Bog continued it to the SW as far as Lough Croan (L c. 1.7km).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Anon. 1988a The Lurag. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 2, 64.
Kelly, M.K. 1907 Cam of St. Bride. Athlone Printing Works.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.