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Islay, Bolsa

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Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval), Lime Kiln (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Islay, Bolsa

Classification Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval), Lime Kiln (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 37784

Site Number NR37NE 9

NGR NR 3862 7756

NGR Description Centred on NR 386 775

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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General oblique aerial view looking across Mala Bholsa towards the township, buildings and enclosures, taken from the WNW.
General oblique aerial view looking across Mala Bholsa towards the township, buildings and enclosures, taken from the WNW.General oblique aerial view looking across the fort towards the remains of the township, buildings and enclosures and along the N coast of Islay, taken from the W.Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township, buildings, enclosures, rig, lazy beds and limekiln, taken from the NW.Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township, buildings, enclosures, rig, lazy beds and limekiln, taken from the NNW.Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township, buildings, enclosures, rig, lazy beds and limekiln, taken from the NNW.Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township, buildings, enclosures, rig, lazy beds and limekiln, taken from the WNW.General oblique aerial view looking across the fort towards the remains of the township, buildings and enclosures and along the N coast of Islay, taken from the W.General oblique aerial view of the enclosures, rig and farmstead at Bolsa, Islay, taken from the NNW.Islay, Bolsa, NR37NE 9, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Killarow And Kilmeny
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NR37NE 9 centred on 386 775

Bolsa, a deserted farmstead occupied within living memory. The house is unroofed but survives to the gables. In the immediate vicinity are the footings of three earlier buildings, two enclosures, and an area of rig-and-furrow.

Visited by OS (NKB) 29 June 1978

One unroofed building, two enclosures, one of which is a sheepfold, and an unroofed structure annotated as an Old Limekiln are depicted on the OS 1st edition 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1881, sheet clxxvi). Four unroofed, two partially roofed, four roofed builidngs and three enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1980).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 21 October 1998

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