Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Boherload,fanningstown (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boherload,fanningstown (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58038, -8.59420
- SMR number
- LI022-239----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight E-facing slope, in low, wet pasture, straddling either side of the Ahanload River, which marks the townland boundary between Boherload and Fanningstown. Ringfort (LI022-047----) 170m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Identified as a field system on Bruff Survey aerial photographs (Bruff 51: AP4/3747). Monument is visible as an irregular-shaped area containing linear and curvilinear cropmarks on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 06/02/2018.
See attached Bruff Survey aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 16 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.