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
- 53.41490, -8.97489
- SMR number
- GA056-024009-
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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; it lies c. 300m SW of a cashel (GA056-024001-). Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 51m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall in NE sector; only a slight scarp (H 0.3m) is visible from S to W and no surface trace survives at N. The interior is cut by two field walls.
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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 16 February 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.