Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Boherygeela, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boherygeela
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50345, -8.62335
- SMR number
- LI031-062004-
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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
In flat pasture, within a field system (LI031-062001-), immediately N of enclosure (LI031-062003-) and 177m S of enclosure (LI031-062002-). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified from an examination of aerial photographs of the region during work on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 26m) with possible annexe (LI031-062003-) to N, on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of Upload: 28 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.