Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boherboy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boherboy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.61727, -8.87453
- SMR number
- LI011-073----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on S-facing slope, surrounded by marsh E->NW. Circular area (diam. 23.5m) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (D 0.3m, Wth 1m) ENE->NW. Bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 2.15m) best preserved along N arc, but denuded to scarped edge SSE->SSW. Dip in bank at W (Wth 2.35m) matched by causeway across fosse. Earth-and-stone counterscarp bank (ext. H 0.3m) E->NW. Dry-stone field wall abuts bank at E and NW. Interior, heavily masked by briars; in NW quadrant are remains of rectangular structure (9.8m N-S; 3.4m E-W) consisting of collapsed stone wall (Wth 0.8m; H 0.3m).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.