Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Rahara, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahara
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.51471, -8.13087
- SMR number
- RO045-130002-
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
A structure with a cross indicating a church is the only feature marked at Raharrowbeg on the Strafford map of c. 1636, but William McHugh Kelly owned over 600 acres at Ballagh and Raharrowbeg in 1641 (Simington 1949, 115, Athlone (215)). The castle is marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a broad basin. This is a subrectangular grass-covered mound (dims of top 10.2m E-W; 3.4m N-S; dims of base 17m E-W; 8.4m N-S; H 0.65-1.25m) within rath (RO045-130001-). Standing stone (RO045-130003-) is just to the S. (Graham 1988, 27-8)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Graham, B. 1988 Medieval timber and earthwork fortifications in western Ireland. Medieval Archaeology 32, 110-29.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1949 Books of survey and distribution. County of Roscommon. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.