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Children's burial ground

Pollawarla, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Pollawarla, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Pollawarla
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Burial Ground
Latest-edition OS map
Childrens Burial Ground
Coordinates
53.42492, -8.78031
SMR number
GA058-027002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Immediately N of the Galway-Roscommon road, along which the td. boundary runs. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a roughly pear-shaped area (N-S c. 40m, E-W c. 25m). This contrasts markedly with 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map where it is named 'Burial Ground' and is indicated by a very large circular area (D c. 90m) straddling the road and defined by a broken line that cuts across the field pattern, it actually encompasses part of a house cluster. The remains presently visible are situated in its NW quadrant and comprise a subrectilinear enclosure (N-S 31.7m, E-W c. 24m) defined by the grassed-over foundation lines of a wall. Traces of wall-facings are visible in one or two places. In the interior, orderly rows of small undressed stones indicate burials oriented ENE-WSW.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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