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
- 52.50370, -8.61558
- SMR number
- LI031-066----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture, 135 N of a rectangular enclosure (LI031-067----). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified from examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 No. 2503) taken 03/11/1984 of the region during work on the Bord Gáis Éireann Curraghleigh West-Limerick. Faint trace of sub-rectangular shaped cropmark (dims. c. 43m E-W x 56m N-S) on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.