Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Pollaturk Or Newgarden, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollaturk Or Newgarden
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48604, -8.93735
- SMR number
- GA043-033003-
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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
In N sector of a hilltop enclosure (GA043-033006-) and immediately ESE of a cairn (GA043-033001-). Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (NE-SW c. 37m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall, overlain from SE through W to NE by a later field wall. Within the interior are two possible house foundations: (a - GA043-033003-) to N of centre, a rectangular area of collapsed stone (E-W; L 10m, Wth 7m); (b - GA043-033004-) in SE quadrant, an L-shaped line of grassed-over stone. (Byrne and Gosling 1988, 138-40; CUCAP ATF 21; ASGAP 384:40; 385:6)
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: 13 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.