What is recorded here

Rathanny is a flat-topped earthwork in County Limerick pasture, standing about three metres high and nearly twenty-nine metres across. It lies near the Tobergobban holy well and graveyard, suggesting the land has long served both daily life and ritual memory. A possible stone entrance feature may still be hidden beneath the scrub, waiting for someone careful enough to look.

In pasture, 115m E of townland boundary with Bottomstown. ‘Tobergobban’ holy well (LI040-017----) and graveyard (LI040-018001-) lie 200m to the NE. Annotated ‘Rathanny’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map and shown as a circular platform (diam. c. 22m) defined by a scarp, immediately S of a post-1700 field boundary running E-W. Described by O’Kelly (1944, 32) as a ‘Type C Earthwork’ consisting of; ‘A flat topped mound around which there is a berm. There does not seem to have been a fosse. The maximum height is 10’ [3m] and overall diameter is 95’ [28.9m]. A possible cist was recorded by W. Forbes (pers. comm. 26/05/1986) which was described as follows; ‘Cist or stone entrance feature on barrow or rath name ‘Rathanny’ on map in Rathanny townland’ (SMR File). Scrub-covered monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 19 May 2021

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