Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Pollacullaire, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollacullaire
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47925, -9.09619
- SMR number
- GA042-204----
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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 a rise in gently undulating grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 50m by c. 40m). All that is visible is a low curving scarp (H 0.25m) at NE, while W limits appear to be represented by a slight drop in ground level. According to the landowner, there was formerly a 'tree' in the interior which his father would not touch. He also had the tradition of a 'cave' in the same area: 'a hollow sound' has also been heard c. 60m to NNE, in the adjacent field, during ploughing. A 'Burial Ground' (GA042-204001-) is associated. Though insufficient survives to permit classification, the associated of a 'cave' and an earthwork could suggest a ringfort and possible souterrain.
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 groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.