Boa Island (from Irish Badhbha)[1][2] is an island near the north shore of Lower Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.[3] It is 16 miles (26 km) from Enniskillen town.[4] It is the largest island in Lough Erne,[5] approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) long,[6] and relatively narrow. The A47 road goes through the length of the island and joins each end of the island to the mainland by bridges leading west toward Castle Caldwell and east toward Kesh.[7]
Boa Island features a counterscarp rath (grid ref: H0744 6250) as well as carved stones, graveyard and enclosure (grid ref: H0852 6197), all in Dreenan townland and all Scheduled Historic Monuments.[8] The Lustymore stone figure was moved here in 1939 from the nearby island of the same name. The oldest stone monument on the island is a denuded cairn at Inishkeeragh Bridge near the southern tip of the island.[4]
- ^ Placenames Database of Ireland
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- ^ The Chrono Centre, Queen's University Belfast. "Boa Island – Carved figures – Lower Lough Erne". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 24 November 2007.
- ^ a b Halpin, Andy; Conor Newman (2006). Ireland: An Oxford Archaeological Guide to Sites from Earliest Times to AD 1600. Oxford University Press. p. 157. ISBN 0-19-288057-8.
- ^ Bord Fáilte (2000). Bord Fáilte Ireland Guide. Gill & Macmillan. p. 398. ISBN 0-7171-2887-3.
- ^ FermanaghLakelands.com. "Find Fermanagh" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 24 November 2007.
- ^ "Boa". Culture Northern Ireland. Archived from the original on 9 June 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
- ^ "Scheduled Historic Monuments (to 15 October 2012)" (PDF). NI Environment Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 October 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2012.