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
- 52.50174, -8.60286
- SMR number
- LI031-071----
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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 wet pasture 100m N townland boundary with Crean. Conjoined enclosures annotated ‘Entrenchment’ (LI031-070001-/002-) c. 70m to SW and possible medieval road (LI031-069----) 330m to W. Possible monument not indicated on OSi historic maps. Earthwork (Site No. 031184) identified on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline 1:5000 aerial photograph (BGE 1:5,0000, 2504) taken 03/11/1984. Faint trace of monument visible as a sub-rectangular cropmark intersected from N-SE by field drain on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-2010. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimage 20/09/2020.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 16 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.