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Enclosure

Boherygeela, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Boherygeela, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Boherygeela
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.50381, -8.60842
SMR number
LI031-068003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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, E of concentric enclosure (LI031-068001-) and immediately E of rectangular-shaped enclosure (LI031-068002-). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument described by O’Kelly (1943, 232) as a rectangular-shaped enclosure (dims. 18m x 22m) ‘only just perceptible’ located to the E of a rectangular enclosure (LI031-068002-) which consisted of a ‘very slight bank, with traces of a fosse outside, enclosing an open space. It measures 60’ [18m] by 72’ [22m]. The monument has beside it on the south side of enclosure No. 2, a water hole fed from an underground spring' (ibid). Monument visible as a rectangular shaped cropmark on the Archaeological Survey of Ireland aerial photograph (ASIAP (307) 12, 14) taken 13/09/2002. Faint 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

See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006, _12 to _15.

References

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.

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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