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
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 53.54591, -8.89206
- SMR number
- GA029-136----
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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
Close to the summit of a ridge, c. 200m SE of another tumulus (GA029-135----). It consisted of a low circular mound (D c. 8m, He. 1m) when excavated in 1935 (Riley 1936). This revealed that it was constructed by adding extra soil to a natural knoll. Four extended inhumations, placed in shallow unlined trenches, were found. Associated finds included several corroded iron fragments, one possible shield boss and animal bones. No visible surface trace survives. (Shea 1936b 55-64; Waddell 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
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.