Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bohola
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90484, -9.07143
- SMR number
- MA071-195----
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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
Located in an area of rough damp pasture.
Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch mapping. Listed in the SMR (1991) and the RMP (1997) as possible earthworks based on linear features visible in an aerial photograph SMR file: GSI M 690 -1; Roll 217, pr. 31).
The remains consist of a slightly sunken trackway (Wth 2.8-3.1m) bordered by earthen field banks (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.35-0.4m; ext. H 0.2m). Intervening between the trackway and the banks are shallow linear depressions (Wth 1.6-2m), probably infilled field ditches. The full extent of the trackway is unclear; above ground remnants can be traced on a NNE–SSW axis for c. 200m between, and a cropmark visible in aerial imagery suggests that it extended for a further c. 100m to NNE.
The date of the trackway is unknown, but it clearly pre-dates the current grid of rectangular fields. Other linear features visible in the aerial photograph correspond to a series of defunct field banks and field drains, also of unknown date.
There is a church (MA071-077001-) and a graveyard (MA071-077002-) c. 180m to E and a motte (MA071-076----) c. 200m to NE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.