Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Raheenroe (shanrahan Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheenroe (shanrahan Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS080-007----
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Power (1908, 60) the placename Raheenroe means the '"Little Red Rath"; from a large mote-like rath still entire'. There is no monument indicated on the 1st or 2nd ed. OS 6-inch map in this townland, which extends onto OS 6-inch 86. Perhaps Power was confusing this with an enclosure (TS070-056----) called 'Raheenroe' on the OS 6-inch map in Coolmundry Parish in the barony of Middlethird. However, if Power is correct then the ringfort in Raheenroe (Shanrahan Parish) is unlocated within the townland.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Power, P. 1908 Placenames of the Decies. Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archaeological Society 11, 1-34, 45-78, 135-43 and 179-210.