Ecclesiastical enclosure in Bola Beg

Situated on a slight rise on the N bank of a WNW-ESE stream, which is c. 40m to the S. This is an early monastic site founded by a St Colman in the 7th century, according to J. O'Donovan, writing c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 245–66). The church (WX014-010001-) is within an oval graveyard (WX014-010003-) with a Church of Ireland church. The graveyard is surrounded by a D-shaped ecclesiastical enclosure (max. ext. dims. c. 200m E-W; c. 130m N-S) visible as two cropmark features backing onto the stream on aerial photographs (MM (2) 16–25; (17) 29-36) and digital aerial photographs (WX014-011_1 to _4) from 2006. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 April, 2012

Ecclesiastical enclosure in Bola Beg is a ringfort or rath associated with an early-medieval monastic site founded by St Colman in the 7th century. It is linked to ecclesiastical and saintly traditions, reflecting the spread of Christianity in Ireland during the early Middle Ages.