Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
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
- 52.50687, -8.61642
- SMR number
- LI031-065----
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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 reclaimed pasture, 340m SW of an enclosure (LI031-063----). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified from an examination of aerial photographs (OSi 1/10,000 No. 45; BGE 1/5000 No. 2503) of the region prior to the construction of the Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Monument visible as a rectangular-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 39m N-S x 31m E-W) transected at E by field boundary running NE-SE on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 16/03/2016 and 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of Upload: 28 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.