Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Bohercuill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bohercuill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caher
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caher
- Coordinates
- 53.47473, -9.02168
- SMR number
- GA042-031001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland. A poorly preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 37m, E-W 34m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain by field clearance. A small stone structure (NW-SE; L 8m, Wth 2.7m) is a built into the external wall-face at NE. In W part of the interior is a slight L-shaped hollow (L 8.2m, Wth 2.5m), running NE-SW, with a poorly defined NW extension (L 5.6m, Wth 2m) at its SW end. This may be the result of digging or the remains of a possible souterrain. A series of earthworks (GA042-031002-) are associated.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.