Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
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
- 53.41612, -8.96952
- SMR number
- GA056-024008-
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. Described in 1979 (Topgr. Files, OPW) as a 'system of small curvilinear fields, bounded by stone walls … to the SW, S and E of the cashel [GA056-024001-]'. It appears to have extended over an area measuring c. 750m NE-SW by c. 400m NW-SE. Land reclamation in the early 1980s resulted in partial clearance, though aerial reconnaissance in September 1984 (ASGAP 167:80) indicated that a large area to NE and E of the cashel was still intact.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.