Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penal Mass station
Pollans, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollans
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Altar
- Latest-edition OS map
- Altar
- Coordinates
- 54.97595, -7.84282
- SMR number
- DG052-033----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Depicted on all editions of the OS 6-inch map as 'Altar' with 'Altar Well' located 45m to the north.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.