What is recorded here

Purcellsrath, locally called Raheenroe, lies in Upper Brownstown where a stream still cuts through high medieval ridges and deep agricultural furrows. The earthwork itself has no fixed point on modern surveys, but the surrounding land preserves the shape of vanished hamlets and the muscle memory of hands that worked it centuries ago. To walk its banks is to touch the edge of a place that refused to be forgotten, even when its name slipped from official lists.

According to Doyle (1985, 148), 'The area referred to as Purcellsrath is apparently Upper Brownstown which was on different occasions presented as a separate parcel of land, and was known to the old people as Raheenroe. There is here a stream, and there are features on the lands adjoining it that would suggest the existence of medieval hamlets or villages. There are to be seen here also the high ridges and deep furrows of medieval agriculture'. The precise location of this features within Brownstown townland is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 October 2020

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