Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Pollawarla, County Galway, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.