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
- 52.50385, -8.60863
- SMR number
- LI031-068002-
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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, immediately NE of concentric enclosure (LI031-068001-) and S of enclosure (LI031-068002-). Not depicted on the OSi historic maps. Monument described by O’Kelly (1943, 232) as; ‘On the NE side just outside the broken end of the bank, is a sub-rectangular enclosure which is now only just barely perceptible. It consists of a slight bank surrounding an open space. Its greatest overall dimension is 175’ [53m].’ Monument is visible as a sub-rectangular shaped cropmark on the Archaeological Survey of Ireland aerial photograph (ASIAP (307) 12, 14) taken 13/09/2002. Trace of monument visible as a sub- rectangular shaped cropmark intersected at NE by a linear cropmark running NW-SE on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages dated 03/03/2013 and 20/09/2020.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of Upload: 16 March 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.