Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Pollboy Or Knockatober, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollboy Or Knockatober
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 53.36897, -8.71432
- SMR number
- GA071-074001-
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
On the roadside, 800m SW of Monivea village. On 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map, a medium-sized earthwork (GA071-074002-) is labelled as 'Burial Ground'. However, by time of 3rd ed. (1931), the latter appears as a large irregular area (c. 70m by c. 65m), delimited by a broken line. The modern graveyard is rectangular in plan (E-W 90m, N-S 70m), and is enclosed by a stone wall which overlies an earthen bank along N side. The majority of the burials are of 20th-C date but a number of small undressed set stones are visible. The well shown on OS 6-inch maps to W of the graveyard is a spring enclosed by a modern wall; it is currently used for watering livestock. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 261)
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.