Settlement cluster in Raheen (coshma By.)

On a gently E-facing slope of a small knoll 590m W of the townland boundary with Grange and 1.4km W of Lough Gur. Ringfort (LI031-075----) 310m to WSW and the habitation sites at Rockbarton (LI031-080001/003-) are 340m to SSE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The settlement earthworks (ext. dims. 18m N-S; 50m E-W) are visible on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 69.01-2: AP 4/3601) as an earthwork. The earthworks are visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017 and 24/09/2018. The features may represent the foundations (now grass covered) of a series of small buildings and / enclosures. These buildings may date from the late medieval or early post-medieval period and were out of use and ruinous by the early 19th century. Similar in morphology to the medieval houses (LI031-041007-) at Cahirguillamore. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 69.01-2 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 20 October 2020