Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
In pasture, 120m W of Ahatemple Stream that runs N-S, a barrow (LI049-0268----) and enclosure (LI049-117----) lies 140m to the SE and 150m to the NE, respectively. Annotated 'Rahasteen' on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 29m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a scarp, with fosse at N. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of ‘two small forts about the centre of the td., one called Rahasteen (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 229). Monument visible as raised oval shaped area defined by a fosse on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Cultivation ridges are visible running across interior of monument on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 October 2021
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.