Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boherroe, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boherroe
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55473, -8.39292
- SMR number
- LI024-036----
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 gentle NW-facing slope, in improved pasture, 30m W of a townland boundary with Ballytrasna. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as an oval-shaped area (20m E-W; 17m N-S) defined by the remains of a bank (Wth 5.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) from N-E-S-SSW, which is reduced to a scarp (Wth 9.25m; H 1.5m at N and Wth 1.5m; H 0.2m at W) from SSW-W-N. An intervening fosse (Wth 6.75m; D 0.5m) is visible from NE-ENE and from ESE-SSE and a possible outer bank (Wth 10.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.25m) is evident at NE and from ESE-SSE. The interior is grass covered and slightly uneven. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped cropmark on OSi orthimage taken 2005-2012, Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, however is best seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached sketch plan and cross-section surveyed and drawn by the ASI in 2008 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 28 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.