Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
Pollacorragune, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollacorragune
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carnfanny
- Coordinates
- 53.54692, -8.89478
- SMR number
- GA029-135----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of an esker ridge. This monument was excavated in 1935 (Riley 1936). It consisted of a circular mound (D 7.6m, H 1.2m) constructed of alternating layers of earth and stones and gravel. Almost at the centre was an inverted cordoned urn containing cremated bones and a bronze razor. Numerous animal bones were also found, as well as seven blue glass beads. No visible surface trace survives. A similar mound (GA029-136----) lay c. 200m to SE. (Kavanagh 1976, 323, 365; Waddell 1975, 20; 1990, 96)
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
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.