Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Boherduff, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boherduff
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55360, -8.50657
- SMR number
- LI023-195----
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 low-lying improved, pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses and to the immediate E of the townland boundary with Gortboy. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a rectangular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 167: AP 4/3693). Monument is visible as the faint trace of a rectangular-shaped earthwork which is defined by a field boundary to W and N, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 167.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 3 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.