What is recorded here
Bolisheen holds a circular cashel thirty-five metres across, built of drystone and now so overgrown that the wall hides beneath living green. It stands immediately east of another cashel, forming a small complex where human hands shaped stone before memory faded. A house sits beside it, suggesting the fort never fully released the land but still shadows the daily life of the people who live above it.
Part of a complex of monuments (GA056-024002-), it lies immediately E of another cashel (GA056-024005-). Poorly preserved densely overgrown circular cashel (D c. 35m) defined by a drystone wall. Traces of wall-facing are visible intermittently. A house (GA056-024006-) lies immediately to E. (ASGAP 167:81)
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
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Megalithic structure in BolisheenMegalithic structure · 569 yd
Church in AucloggeenChurch · 1.0 mi
Site of CastleCastle, unclassified · 1.4 mi
The Monasterymonastery · 1.7 mi
Cregboyne FortBawn · 2.0 mi
Cregg Castle DemesneForest · 2.1 mi
Ballinduff BayBay · 3.9 mi
European BeechEuropean Beech · 4.1 mi
Oileán an AoilIsland · 5.6 mi
Oileán an BhreathnaighIslet · 5.8 mi