Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Pollboy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollboy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31767, -8.19714
- SMR number
- GA088-020002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within E half of Pollboy church (GA088-020001-). In discussing the church, Egan (1960, 26) notes that it is 'not enclosed [by a graveyard] and only unbaptised children are buried there'. The visible remains comprise very poorly preserved irregular lines of limestone blocks indicating graves oriented E-W. There is an inscribed slab, dedicated to an infant and bearing the date 1828, under S window of the church.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.