Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Bolisheen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bolisheen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41434, -8.96554
- SMR number
- GA056-024004-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Part of a complex of monuments (GA056-024002-), it lies immediately E of another cashel (GA056-024005-). Poorly preserved densely overgrown circular cashel (D c. 35m) defined by a drystone wall. Traces of wall-facing are visible intermittently. A house (GA056-024006-) lies immediately to E. (ASGAP 167:81)
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.