Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Watchtower
Bohercuill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bohercuill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47033, -9.02379
- SMR number
- GA042-034----
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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
On a hill in undulating grassland. An enigmatic subcircular building (N-S 2.05m, E-W 1.97m, H 3.8m) constructed of stone and mortar. It is capped by a corbelled stone roof, conical in form, which springs from the inner edge of the side walls. A small chimney stack surmounts its apex. There is a robbed-out doorway at E, a small splayed window at W, and a fireplace at NE, to E of which are traces of a second window. Traces of a mortared floor survive in SW sector. The building is plastered internally, and the roof both externally and internally. According to local information, it was used as a lookout post to watch over flocks of sheep. Adjoining the monument at E is a small trapezoidal field (L 8m, Wth 1.5m) enclosed by a stone wall; possibly 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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.