Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Bohernagore, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bohernagore
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.34987, -8.55724
- SMR number
- LI055-010----
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 slightly undulating pasture, with good views from SE-SW. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a D-shaped area defined by a scarp with fosse and external bank. Surveyed in 1999 and described as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. 24m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 1m; D 0.45m) with fosse (Wth at base 3m), bank (overall Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.2m) and external fosse (base Wth 1m; ext. D 0.2m; ext. Wth 1.5m). Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Field drain truncates the site at N. Monument clearly visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.