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
- 52.50215, -8.61582
- SMR number
- LI031-067----
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
In reclaimed pasture, 140m N of townland boundary with Crean. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified from an examination of aerial photographs (no photo ref. in file) of the region prior to construction of the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Monument visible as a rectangular-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 27m N-S x 18m E-W) intersected at E by field boundary running NE-SE on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. Adjacent remains of an extensive field system of uncertain date visible 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.