Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Bohercarron, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bohercarron
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43517, -8.33572
- SMR number
- LI041-066----
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, immediately E of a local road that marks the townland boundary with Ballylooby. Holy Well (LI041-071----) lies 20m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Possible enclosure identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 15; AP 5/2131). No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotos. Faint outline of circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 29m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.