Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Pollacorragune, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollacorragune
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Leacht Benan
- Coordinates
- 53.54021, -8.89141
- SMR number
- GA029-137----
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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
Part of the early ecclesiastical remains at Kilbenan (GA029-017004-) it lies 150m to N of the church (GA029-017002-). An elongated cairn of stone (L 10m, Wth 4m, H 1.5m), its long axis running N-S, which is locally believed to be the final resting place of St Benan.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.