
What is recorded here
Boherduff preserves a subtriangular enclosure near a church, with two holy wells and a bullaun stone nearby. Its collapsed drystone wall still marks a narrow, elongated space, likely formed for worship, shelter or boundary life. The nearby water and worn stone suggest people kept returning there, feeding the place with prayer, memory and everyday use.
Some 100m to the NW of a church (GA105-029001-). Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subtriangular enclosure (c. 60m ENE-WSW; max. Wth at W c. 28m; max. Wth at E c. 10m). It is defined by intermittent traces of a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 0.85m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.75m) which are visible at NW, NNE to ESE and from SE to SW. Two holy wells (GA105-029006- and GA105-029007-) and a bullaun stone (GA105-029009-) lie c. 20m to the SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 February 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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